WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: The Condor's Top Crooner 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.520 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.520 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.360 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:28.480 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:36.519 In the air everywhere. Welcome into the Audio Dojo, another 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.800 edition of The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:44.920 G Radio, a spin off of the Ben Mahler Show. 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.159 You hear Danny G with Covino and Richie. You hear 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:51.479 me bloviating into the night, five nights a week in 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.520 this podcast. As you know, it's heard every weekend. We 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.760 have three original podcasts. You will not get this content 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.640 anywhere else. A bit on the iHeart Podcast Network or 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.880 wherever you happen to download the podcast. 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.400 And we thank you, thank you, thank you for supporting 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:07.400 the show. You've been great. 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.680 The reviews continue to pop up. In fact, we will 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:14.319 have coming up in a little bit on this The 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:16.200 Saturday edition will have Backscratcher. 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.040 We had a few more reviews. 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:26.959 We have stamp of approval, Viva Las Vegas, Tales from 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.080 the Naked City with our man Danny G. 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:34.000 And you make the call. So we got all that. 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.039 Content and we're going to get the party started here 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.240 right now. So the stamp of approval, the Life of 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:45.319 malor the Life of Danny G. So I talk about 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.080 what happens and then nothing too exciting happened. Of course 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.320 you could argue nothing ever that exciting happens kind of 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.000 the day to day, but that's most of life. It's 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.400 just the day to day stuff. That's kind of how 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:57.160 you live your life, right. You have a few big 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.200 events mixed in. Then you kind of call it a 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.200 day and you look at your scorecard and see how 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.480 you did when you're ready to check out. But in 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:09.160 the last since we last talked, kind of quiet. Wife 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.400 was working. She's been working a lot of extra shifts 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.440 at the police station. She's a nine to one to 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.919 one operator, so she was doing that, and I take 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.799 care of stuff around the house, do some shopping, take 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.359 out the trash, that kind of stuff. But I did 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:30.320 end up cooking on Saturday Saturday. Saturday Saturday, I opened 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:35.399 up Benny's pizzeria. Benny's Pizzeria was open for business. Now 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.040 on the menu. Here's the menu, Danny, I want to 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.960 see if you approved the menu. I had breadsticks, but 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:44.520 not just breadsticks, a rip off version of the round 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.239 Table garlic parmesan breadsticks. 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:47.919 You ever had those? 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.120 Oh, yes, I have. 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.520 That is the Let me tell you something that is 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:53.480 food porn. 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.320 I don't know what they do with those things at Roundtable, 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.280 but my god, you get that a little marina on 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:00.799 the side. 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:06.000 Oh heaven, heaven, it's a meal in itself. It is, 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:06.680 it is. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.560 And if if Roundtable didn't cost nine hundred dollars for 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:12.800 a pie, I might go back there. But instead I 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:16.080 just make ripoff versions. So I made this Roundtable garlic 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.160 palmers on breadstick plate. And if you've never been to 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.000 Round Table, which I think is only on the West coast, 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:22.520 r it's a northern California place. 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.720 I think it's only kind of in the West. I 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.640 don't think it's a national chain. 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:31.480 But it's really good and cheesy, loaded with garlic goodness. 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:32.720 So I made that. 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.920 That was the appetizer, and then I made not one, 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:42.480 but two authentic original mallard pies from the old Country, 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.040 which is not really the Old Country, because you know, 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:46.640 I came up with the recie, but. 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.400 It's just what I like. So what is a mallard pie? 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.040 If you've not heard before, Well, this was actually on 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:56.480 the menu Danny in Michigan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, home of 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.760 Floyd Mayweather and his family, if I remember correctly, there 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.360 was a a pizzaia like a bar pizzeria that put 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.600 this on the menu. Then they took it off the menu, 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:09.000 but it was on the menu. So a malard pie, 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:13.280 it's it's And I made two of these, so large pizza. 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.520 You got the dough and all that thinly cut onion. 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:22.320 So I use a mandolin to cut the the onion 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:26.520 ridiculously thin, as thin as I can possibly get the onion. 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.920 I then put bell pepper, chopped the bell up, put 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.679 that all over, put a bunch of garlic on top 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:36.719 to keep the vampires away. 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:41.440 Put a mound of mozzarella all over that bad boys the. 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.359 Tomato sauce, and then you put the mozzarella on top 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.000 and put some other cheeses. Mix the cheeses up a 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:55.360 wonderful medley of cheeses, and it's a little slice of paradise. 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:57.120 It's what it is. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.480 I did this all, you know, just on Saturday. I 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.840 spent a lot time putting this thing together, and I 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:03.880 had to time it. See that the time for me 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:05.720 is the timing thing. Because the wife was at work, 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.680 she was on her way home, so I wanted to 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:11.760 line it up, and so I was a little off 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:12.320 on the timing. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:16.799 She got there. My father in law stopped by. 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:23.200 And he joined us because his stepdaughter had a baby 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.240 in North Carolina, so everything's kind of messed up. He's 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.640 been spending time in North Carolina, spending time in California, 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:30.960 where he lives, and so he came over to have 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:35.160 a home cooked meal and aye of that. And I'm 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:40.119 happy to report, Danny, that I did pick up the 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:41.960 father in law seal of approval. 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.680 I was all concerned because this is the pizza I like. 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.479 You know, when you make food that you like, You're like, I. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.279 Don't know that anyone wants onion and bell pepper and 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.840 garlic on their pizza. Maybe they want, you know, classic 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:54.640 sausage of the pepperoni or something like that. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.960 And this is what I got. But he did like it. 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.560 He gave me the seal of approval and took confirmed 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.000 that he did like it. We had a bunch of 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.160 left I made too much food, so we had a 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.880 bunch of leftover pizza and breadsticks. Actually the bread sticks 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.120 went pretty quick. There was leftover pizza, and so he 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:13.719 took a bag of pizza. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.680 Well yeah, that's when you ask for some tinfoil. 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.240 Yeah, yeah, so he took some. He took some pizza, 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:22.640 and then I was like, well, maybe he's just being polite. 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:24.360 Part of me is like, well, maybe he's just being polite. 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.040 You know, I don't want to be a dick, and 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:28.520 he wants me to think that he likes the pizza. 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.480 You know, I like the pizza or whatever he likes it. 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:32.800 So I was kind of rolling over that. 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:37.040 But the next day I got a text and he said, hey, 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.279 I loved it. Tastes just as good the second day, 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.080 and so I was like, there you go. I got evidence, 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:48.200 mission accomplished, and so I was. I was happy about this, 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:52.599 but these round table garlic palmers on breadsticks, this ripoff version, 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.080 Oh man, it's the way to go. I don't think 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.080 you can get that in Viva Las Vegas, Dandy. I 0:06:59.080 --> 0:06:59.919 don't know that you can't. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:01.760 I mean, maybe you can't. You can get just about 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.080 anything you want in Vegas, but I've never seen that. 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:06.560 Is there a round table in Vegas? 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:07.719 I don't know. I have no idea. 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.600 They got a bunch of other pizza places there, so 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:09.960 who knows. 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.640 You have a bunch of different spots. They're like Slice, 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.440 which I saw at the Mandalay Bay as you walk 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:18.320 into the Luxelre. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:18.960 Oh. 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.720 It was a great NBA con, the very first one 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.480 that they tried. In their mind, I think they wanted 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.720 to kind of be like a comic con, but for 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:33.400 basketball nerds. There were all kinds of vendors and fashion 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.880 like NBA fashion there. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.600 How much did it cost to get into NBA Con? 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:39.880 How are they charging? 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:44.600 I think it was thirty dollars for kids for kids, 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.160 in fifty for adults, I believe. 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:47.760 Boy. 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.320 Yeah, But in Vegas that's you know, it's not too 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.880 horrible because there was a sneaker con thing going on 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.680 right next door, which was even more expensive. And then 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.760 of course the cigar weekend was going on there where 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.720 all these old, these old NBA looking dudes were in 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:07.880 line for cigars. 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.960 The villivily quiet, you. 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.440 Know, Las Vegas, it's very, very expensive, but I think 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.840 inside there they had enough stuff going on for the 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.960 kids where when my son gets old enough, I would 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.720 bring them to something like this, because instead of a 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:28.840 skate park inside this massive convention center connected to Vandali Pay, 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.920 it was a basketball park. So they had all these 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:38.120 things that looked like Disneyland, created these basketball hoop trees 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.840 with basketball hoops all the way around in a three sixty. 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:49.240 Kids could slam, dunk, fall, bounce off the tarp and 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.600 it was really really cool. Man. There was even little 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.640 toddlers running around. It was basketball heaven for little kids. 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:58.280 And then you go to the middle and there was 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.760 like a huge basketball am was on store where you 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:05.600 could order exclusive NBA gear and they ship it right 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.200 to you so that you don't have to lug it 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:12.119 around with you all weekend. So they had some cool concepts, 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.000 some good ideas. They had a big stage where they 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.280 had live performers, and that's also the stage where Adam 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.160 Silver got up there and made his weird announcement about 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:23.560 the in season tournament. 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:24.600 You know. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.920 The highlight though, was Dominique Wilkins on our set. We 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:34.120 got to interview him former clipper. Yeah, former clipper, although 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.560 he said in the interview, he'd like to forget those years. 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:38.400 No, it's it's true. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.880 When he was traded for Danny Manning, I was covering 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.680 the team at the time, and he was like a 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.600 sad puppy dog, like a Bassett hound. You know, he 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.280 was so depressed. He was so so depressed playing for 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:52.920 the Clippers. 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.360 What is still wrong with the Clippers? They were terrible 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:57.480 in those days. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:02.439 At the play the Mausoleum Sports Arena, it was brilliant. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.120 Yeah, had it been the Bomber Clippers, he would have, 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.800 you know, blended in better with a Blake Griffin and 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.280 a Lob City. But yeah, back then it was a 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:12.800 sad situation for him. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.680 And now, at one point Dominique for those that are 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.400 of not of the age, like Dominique Wilkins played in 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.760 the eighties, but at one point he was neck and 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.880 neck with Michael Jordan, like they were they were the 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:30.880 two great dunkers, dom Jordan, and then it's like they 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.520 were even and all of a sudden, Jordan like took off. 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:38.400 But for a while, Dominique Wilkins was considered the same 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:42.800 player as Jordan, and you know, very similar similar guy 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.679 as far as a dunking guy and a high flyer 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.119 and all that, and then Jordan. 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:47.880 Took it to the next level. 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:52.719 He even was runner up to Jordan's scoring title. Yeah, man, 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.880 a lot of people they asked him that too. They said, Hey, 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.120 when you google Dominique Wilkins, one of the first things 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:03.280 that comes up said why is he so underrated? He said, 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:08.440 he thinks it's because he didn't play alongside another genuine superstar. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:14.240 That's a shot at doc rivers. That's a shot who. 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.679 I think the show was old HOWK John Contact. 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:22.280 I think was in Atlanta, a split web free rawlins right, Yes, yeah, 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.480 some of those old HOWK players back of the day. 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.800 That's very nice guy. It was really cool and he 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.079 stayed for like an extra fifteen twenty minutes after the 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.560 interview to take pictures with everybody that was there. It 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:37.320 was like a live audience setting of wordless Mic where 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.000 they did Q and A with Covino and Rich and 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.400 some of the people that showed up. So it was 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.680 really that was cool that all went very smooth and 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.280 our bosses were happy. H There was lots of excitement 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:56.040 around the iHeart stage. Now interviews over, we pack up, 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.199 I clean the stage, up for the next show that's 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.320 going to go on, and I have to go to 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:06.760 the bathroom really bad. I've been holding number one and 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.520 I'm like, I gotta get to the restroom. So I'm 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.200 asking people where are the restrooms here? And somebody an 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.480 intended pointing me all the way to the back of 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.000 the convention center, and so I'm doing that Indian dance, 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.520 racist except politically incorrect. 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:25.320 Just go for it. Why not? 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:28.680 I did the Indian dance all the way to the 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:32.920 back of the convention center. Yeah, and I find the restroom. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.320 When I come out, there's all the there's all these 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.400 kids jumping up and down, super excited, and there's a 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.640 few mean security guards saying step back, step back, and 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.160 I'm like, what's going on here? So I get my 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.000 camera out, like they all had their cameras out. I 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.440 don't even know what's going on, but I became part 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:56.480 of the crowd. There comes Isaiah Thomas walking through and 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.680 he's given us high fives and he's doing his Isaiah smile, 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.640 and I'm like, well, that's cool. And then moments later, 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:11.920 a giraffe enters the building. Who is it this Wembanyama kid? Seriously, 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.400 when he walks through a crowd. It looks like a 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:15.600 giraffe at a zoo. 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:18.360 But he's seven five. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.640 They said, holy shit, I guess like seven to seven 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:25.360 and his sneakers. I've never seen a human being that 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.760 tall in my life. This guy would make you look 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:33.480 like Arnold West. I can't. Would you talk about Mallard? 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.280 Yeah, well, you know, but he's not the thing about 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.880 I've seen him like he's very scrawny, like he's say, 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.120 he's got to fill out. But like the two biggest 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.120 human beings I've ever seen in my life were both 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:45.079 basketball players. 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.880 It was George Mirrasan who was in it. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:48.960 That guy was huge. 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.520 He was in a movie with Billy Crystal and the 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.400 other one is Yao Ming and I guess Shaq would 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:59.960 be on there as well, but Yao Ming and George. 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:04.240 Mirras On were monsters, so Shack was also put. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.960 Yeah, but this guy is so skinny, though, do you 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.240 think he might be able to break him like a draft, 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:11.400 you know, the legs on a draft. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.360 Yeah, that's why when we were on the air, I said, 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.800 I don't care what he says about skinny up or whatever. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.360 He's got to put some muscle on. Whether that's fifteen 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.480 to twenty pounds. He's got to put something on because 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.960 if I'm an NBA coach, I'm telling my players, hey, 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:31.200 rough him up. He's definitely a skinny dude, and I 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.480 think you could probably push him around the court if 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.160 you wanted to play physical like that. 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.200 Yeah, he's like a piece of straw. And then the 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.760 guy in Oklahoma City who missed last year. I forget 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.920 the kid's name from. Was he Gonzaga. He's also built 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:43.200 like that. 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:48.200 Yeah, it's like they remind me of here's an outdated reference. 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:52.200 But why not a Minute Bowl? When I started as 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.640 a radio report, Minute was still playing. He was playing 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.720 for the Golden State Wars and they had him shoot 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:57.680 three point shots. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.560 The guy seven to seven minute Bowl? 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:01.720 How about an early Kevin Durant. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:08.120 Yeah, Durant was Spindley he was also but yeah or not. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.600 Minootpole never filled out like Mark Eaton, who I think 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.960 he passed away copters. But he was a giant man too. 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.200 For the Utah Jazz there. 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.920 Were a lot of massive Kevin Duckworth who's also dead, 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:22.240 but he was massive. 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.560 He played with the Clippers at the end of his career. 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.560 Oh, speaking of Clippers. I saved the best for last 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:27.920 four year. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:29.960 Right. Here we go, Here, we go here. 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.880 When we first entered the convention Center on day one, 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.560 we noticed the NBA mascots right away, Slamson the Lion 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:42.280 and Chuck the Condor, who we talked about a lot 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:46.200 on your live radio show Overnights Trash. He even had 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:51.400 his own sound effects. Yeah, you know, he's a star. 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.160 And they had a charity basketball court in the center 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.400 of the convention Center where they were raising money and 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.720 giving away prizes, and they were like firing off T 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:05.560 shirts and there were certain like players shooting three pointers 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.280 to raise money and stuff like that going on with 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:12.400 an MC yelling and screaming into the microphone. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.280 So in dancing ooh drizzle. 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.760 So we're watching a little bit of this and Slamson 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.880 comes up and he snaps a quick picture with Covino 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.240 and Rich. I see Chuck out of the corner of 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:25.560 my eye. 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:27.160 Now full disclosure stuff. 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:31.080 Slamson is the King's mascot right right right, the Lion. 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.400 Okay, Sacramento's finest. Yeah, okay, So out of the corner 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:37.800 of my eye, I see Chuck the Condor, and I 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.560 tell cn R I'm like, you got to get a 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:40.400 picture with Chuck. 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.160 Is this like seeing Jesus? Is this as very similar? 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:44.520 Very close? 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:45.840 Yes? 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.360 So we I mean people were getting pushed over. It 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.720 was much like the scene when Wemby, when I mean 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.760 kids and adults were pushing each other over. Same thing 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:56.760 with Chuck the Condor. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.640 You got mascot loyalty and with apologies to Benny the 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.040 Bull and Lucky the Leprechaun and all that, this is 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.560 Chuck the Efen Condor, okay, and the gorilla in Phoenix 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.000 and all that. I'm sorry you got the Condor? 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:12.080 What what? 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:12.879 What? 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:19.080 Just like that, So he he's nice enough to take 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:23.320 a selfie with Covino and Rich. I'm wearing my Kobe jersey, 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:28.040 and Rich points to me, trying to start trouble as usual, 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.920 and he's like, take a picture with a Kobe fan here, 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:37.720 And so Chuck immediately does his karate kid crane stance 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:39.359 like he's gonna kick me in the face. 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:43.800 Yeah, that's my man, Chuck. There, violent mascot, Chuck the Condor. 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.200 I square up and I get my hand like I'm 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:51.040 gonna punch him in his two can sam nose. And 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.359 then they said the magic words they said, take one 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:58.600 picture for Ben Mallard, who Ben Mallard came out of 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:03.080 Rich Davis's mouth. Chuck the Condor's head was shaking up 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.760 and down, like just do it, do it. 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.920 That's my mascot, that's my guy, the great Chuck the Condor. 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:11.760 Come on now. 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.520 So, as you know, these these mascots are not allowed 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:19.679 to talk. But the way he reacted to hearing Ben Mahller, 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:23.159 you know that you are on an even higher level 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:24.760 than Clipper Darryl. 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.560 Well, that's a I'm flattered and I'm smiling. I have 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:30.960 a chess Shire cat smiled, Danny. I'm so happy from 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.520 here to here now. I was at Chuck the Condor's 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.120 birthday party a couple of years ago. 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:39.040 Loser that was like mascot porn? 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.080 Was that because it was the same thing because they 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:42.919 was Chuck the Condor. They had all these other random 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.720 mascots and it was awesome. But I got I got 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.000 photo with Chuck and the person that took the photo 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:50.760 he botched a lot of the photos. So I got 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.159 to go back to another mascot party. So would you 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:56.600 rate this, Danny, I've only been to the NFL experience obviously, 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:00.679 this was new NBA con Is it NBA on better 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:01.880 than the NFL experience? 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:03.960 The NFL experience is like a lot of. 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:10.680 It's very similar, but it's not as polished. So I'm 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:12.440 going to say it's going to take another year or 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:16.320 two of them working out the kinks to get it 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.720 to roll as smooth as an NFL experience. 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.440 Yeah, the NFL has been doing that for thirty years. 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:25.920 So in the end, I wanted to think the NBA 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:28.920 hired the same people that put the NFL thing together, like, hey, 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:30.080 can you help us out here? 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:32.640 Possibly because it looked very similar. 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:37.720 Yeah, there's there's likely a kind of a map or 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:41.920 a framework that you got to use. And Baseball does 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:42.480 the same thing. 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:44.800 They have their All Star fan fest that they had 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.280 in Seattle this week, so you know, why not there. 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:49.199 You go knock yourself out. 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.719 So you make the call. Used to love these, you 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.720 make the call. We'll make this quick. So got back 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:59.840 from the gym this week, was walking in the kitchen 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:03.880 get some water after I'd done my time on the treadmill. 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:09.359 I took a wrong step. Now you make the call 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:13.159 on what happened. This is multiple choice A. Did I 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:19.399 step on bella poopy. B. Did I trip and hurt 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:24.200 my toe on the side of a table. C I 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:28.679 sliced my foot open with a gusher of blood on 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:32.399 a piece of glass, or D none of the above. 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:36.280 You make the call. 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:40.040 I'm gonna say that you hurt your toe, you kicked 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:40.880 the side of it. 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:44.399 You think you're going with B that I tripped on 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:47.600 I hit the table with my toe. The correct answer 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:52.639 reveal answers is C dand it was actually see, I 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:56.280 was walking barefoot after I took my shoes off. That 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:58.520