WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Radio Wars 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:04.040 Ka boom boom. If you thought four hours a day, 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.640 minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:12.320 remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.440 He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:19.520 the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.280 of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:30.400 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:37.640 everywhere hanging out at the podcast Ojo the latest Pipe 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.920 and Hot edition on a Christmas Eve. The Fifth Hour 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:48.080 with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio. Oh Mary Christmas? 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:52.280 Did I do that right? Danny? Today? Oh man, it 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:57.240 felt like Santa was in my living room right here. Yeah. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.120 I want to point out before we get going on 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.959 the podcast, Danny, that it is the most frustrating thing 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.200 to me. Now you know that I'm a man of 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.120 my word. When I say I sucked garlic to get 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:11.720 over illness, I'm not lying, right. So this week I 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:13.640 was a little on the weather, so I went to 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.040 had somebody go to the store pick up some garlic 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.040 and and during the show, I'm in studio here and 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.920 I have this plate right and it's it's got a 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.520 little pieces of garlic, which is which is my medicine. 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:29.000 And I'll let you in on a little inside radio things. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.679 So the other night I was doing a read for 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:35.720 tire rack dot com and my voice started wavering a 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.119 little bit. Oh boy, so I went dev con one. 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.840 I immediately I went to the garlic and I started 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.920 sucking that garlic like a jolly Roger, And within five 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.640 minutes I got my voice back where I was able 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.680 to function on the show again. So, well, the thing 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:55.800 that's upsetting them me Danny's I I tell people, I 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.000 run into people, I learntder the weather, I'm sick whatever. 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.400 It's like, I got the perfect thing for you. And 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.000 I explained to them the garden, the raw garlic, and 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:07.160 they look at me like I'm speaking Klingon or something 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.040 like that, like what's wrong with you? You lose there. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.600 I am such a radio loser. It's just crazy. So anyway, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.400 I just want to complain about that. We have nerd 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:21.160 Tastic Jump Around Dr Seuss, Market Research, Pop Goes the 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:26.240 Culture Backscratcher. This is like a jam packed edition. It's 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.640 amazing content here. Dude, We're like a real podcast. How 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.320 much are we charging for this? I heard that somewhere. 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.400 How much are we charging for this? We do? We know? 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.280 No brand new Patreon show right here. Yeah, that's right, 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.800 that's the next step the Patreon. How many one block 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:46.760 Pandora's box, please insert your credit card for five dollars 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.400 and cents. How many of these podcasts can we do? 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.519 Where we gave out one of those things and said 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.200 you gotta donate money before we somebody found out we 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:59.919 were doing it, Like somebody would rat us out immediately, 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.760 blind Scott, he would, he would rat us out, that weasel. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.040 All right, our our lead here on the fifth hour, 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.280 It's a Life of Mallard, Life of Danny g So 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.640 the postgame show of the holiday party heard round the 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:18.840 radio world, titled The Mallardpalooza Ugly Sweater Party two was 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.400 a rollicking good time. Was so great to have everyone 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.280 I know. We had a Halloween party a while ago, 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.000 which was not that long ago, but the The Ugly 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:30.959 Sweater Party a huge success. It was great at absolute blast. 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.120 I don't know if anyone else had a good time, 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.560 but talking old radio stories, a bunch of people that 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.200 I've worked with years ago when I was like a kid, 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.000 I was like nineteen years old. These are some of 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.000 the people. That's how far back it goes. I'm out 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.080 of old fart and uh and you know some of 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.000 these guys are older dudes now, and I just love 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:53.760 talking shop. It was for me. It was like chicken 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.440 soup for the soul. Is that Looney Tunes guy would say? 0:03:56.440 --> 0:04:02.600 But it was really awesome. It was slightly this orderly, rowdy, wicked, 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.760 all of that, and I spent a lot of my time. 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.400 I held court in the in the back there of 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.720 the Mallard mansion, behind the main house. There, I was 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.920 in the fire pit area and we were all telling 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.479 telling old shaggy dog stories about radio, which I love. 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.720 I love hearing the I'm a loser. I love these 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.920 stories and the crazy stuff that's happened on the air 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:27.479 off the air, and there's some wild stuff. Most of 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.600 it happened prior to like fifteen years ago, but it's 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.039 it's nuts and I actually almost overdosed because it was 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:39.120 a from a radio perspective, it was nerd tastic. And 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.520 one story I would like to share with the class. 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:43.919 I almost spit my beer out on this, Danny, and 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.000 I wonder, I wonder if you've heard this. It involves Now, 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:51.680 is it true that Larry King, the late Larry King, 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.520 icon of radio man, Larry King got taken to the 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:59.600 cleaners by a phony phone call that caused his entire 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.760 net work to go into pandemonium on his overnight show. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.080 If you heard this story before, I've never heard about this. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.520 It's like great. I never heard this one either. And 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.560 when I heard this, I was dying. I was like, 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.719 tell me again, tell me, I got the little kid, 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.320 you know, a little baby. I tell me again. So 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.760 this actually involves another big name in radio, although he's 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.800 pretty much retired at this point, Tom Likes, who had 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.480 a very successful career as a talk shows there's a 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:27.120 shock jock on FM radio and AM radio back in 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.520 the day. And so the legend is as was told 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.120 to me by somebody in the know, and I will 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.000 not I will I will cover up for the guilty. Um. 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.320 So he told told me the story. He said like 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:42.159 it pulled the greatest phony phone call of all time. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.599 Not it was not a Boba booy call or anything 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.960 like that. This is a hum dinger, humdinger of a 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:50.599 story that I would like to share with the class. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.880 So so let's sake in the hot Tip time machine. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.400 It's the early nineteen eighties, so it's a whole different world. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:00.400 And Larry King is the He is the king of 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.640 of overnight radio that you know I do overnight. He 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.960 was the king of overnight radio. And Tom Likeas, who 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.880 was a budding radio man and had his own career, 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.680 was not big name and radio at that time. Likeas 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:16.560 calls Larry King up. Now, Larry had his show on 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.480 the Mutual Broadcasting Systems alright, so that was the network, 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:27.760 and Likes had recorded the network tone that Mutual Broadcast 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:34.839 Systems used, and Likes calls into Larry King, Hi, Larry uh, 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.080 And they have a brief back and forth and Larry 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.200 was kind of slow on the uptake even back then, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:46.680 and Tom Likes played he played the Mutual Broadcasting Systems 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.760 tone on his call. So what happened next? I'll let 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.480 you in on a little inside radio how this used 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:52.800 to work. He doesn't work this one anymore, so I 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:59.240 can say it. So that tone sent hundreds of automated 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:03.520 radio stage sans into an immediate commercial break in the 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:07.520 middle the middle, in the middle of Larry King show, 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:15.120 they go to commercial break. Larry was he was dumb struck. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.560 He didn't know what to do, he didn't know what 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.440 had happened. It took him a couple of minutes to 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.960 realize what had happened. And uh, it was just the 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:32.760 the idea that God that I don't know. But I'm 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.560 told there is a clip that is on YouTube. I 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.960 tried to find it and I could not find it. 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.200 Now the person that told me the story swears that 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.360 there is a clip and as of a couple of 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.360 years ago, it was on YouTube. So I typed in 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.200 like us and Larry King, and I did not find 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.640 anything that matched up to that. But if anyone, I'm 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:56.440 talking to you as a listener, if you can find this, boy, 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.200 you'd be my hero for the day. If you could 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.560 send that to me. I want to watch this and 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:04.360 so I just and I I saw you light up, 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.800 Danny when you heard that story. Right, this is anybody 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:08.840 that's been doing what we do for a living. You 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.520 hear that story and it's just the greatest thing you've 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:17.280 ever heard. Just the the amount of chaos that in 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.800 that little cartoon bubble in my head, I imagine Larry 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.240 King and his producer and his engineer went through as 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.160 they tried to tried to figure out how to get 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:29.160 the affiliates back. Oh, it's it's just so great. It's 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.480 so good because when we were kids, there were a 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.480 lot of radio wars, like you got a lot of 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:39.679 mob pops, you had a lot of medium sized broadcasting groups. 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:44.000 It wasn't these huge conglomerates like there are nowadays in 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.240 any given city. You had all these little radio wars 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.640 going on. And I had a general manager in particular 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:52.920 who loved that kind of stuff, and so he was 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.960 always fucking with a competition. And I have stories for 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.160 days that came out of that market when I was 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:03.880 a kid. Some of the stories unbelievable, the great lengths 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.040 that our staff went to just to screw the other stations. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.680 So when I hear a story like that, man, there's 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.400 so much appreciation. Yeah it is. I mean, we're just 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.439 a couple of old radio guys and so that I mean, 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.000 so I don't know that anybody like newer in the 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.000 business would appreciate it. It was a different time, but 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:22.880 I was involved in that. When I first got in 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.880 back in the nineties, we had we still had those 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.760 things going on and all that. So it was wild 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.439 and crazy it's enough. When I heard that story, I 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.400 wanted to jump around, Danny, I really well, I did. 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:36.000 I wanted to. I was so happy. I was like, 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:40.000 tell me again, tell me again. It was crazy. Can 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:41.640 I do we have time for me to tell you 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:45.559 one story that we did against the competition? Yeah? Absolutely, 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.360 I would. I love I love old radio stories. Yeah. 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.640 So there were two big country stations in the market 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.560 that I was in as a kid, and I was 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.439 coming from hip hop music. I didn't know much about 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.240 country music at the time, but in the same Troll 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:05.040 Valley of California, there's two music genres that were really loved, 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.560 hip hop and country, but the big stations were country. 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.079 And at the time it was the big Garth Brooks 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.440 explosion and all of that. So you had a fifty 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.400 thousand watch station, which I was working on, and it 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:21.320 was like the more top forty aggressive version of the format. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:25.800 And then you had the older, standard hit country station 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.760 that had been in the market for a long time 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:32.000 and they were called K Mix. K Mix. Staff from there, 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.439 including me, left to go to the more progressive station. 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.280 So now I'm on this new, more popping station. Me 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.200 and the staff are having fun, and that's where that 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.440 general manager was that I mentioned a little bit ago, 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.360 any time we could stick it to K Mix. This 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.960 guy loved it. I mean, this guy salivated over screw 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.920 in the competition. So I'm in there on an overnight 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.280 bend with a buddy of mine who also did overnights 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.280 at the station, and the two of us together came 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.880 up with a quick idea. There was a country artist 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.640 coming to the fair grounds there and his name was 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.640 Ricky Van Shelton. We devised a plan where I was 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.040 going to be the record company rep and he was 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:21.360 Ricky Van Shelton. He called the overnight DJ. We called 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:25.320 the overnight DJ at K Mix, and I researched. I 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.079 found out the record label's name, and I made up 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.400 like a business name. We called, and I told the guy, Hi, 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.600 I'm so and so from Capitol Records or whatever it was. 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.240 And I'm like, you know, we were supposed to have 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.600 called earlier today so you could get liners from Mr 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:46.040 Ricky Van Shelton, but his schedule didn't cooperate. So if 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.160 it's okay with you, I know it's late, but he'd 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.679 like to read these liners for you. And this weekend 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.840 DJ at K Mix fan was so excited. He's like, 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.680 oh my god, yeah, yeah, I'll record the liners. You know. 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.920 He's like, hang on, hang on, let me get everything ready, 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.439 and he's like, Okay, go ahead, and I'm like hang on. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:04.920 So I hold hand the phone to my buddy and 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.440 he's like, Hey, this is Ricky Van Shelton. Now, Ben, 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:12.960 in these K Mix liners were a cat country their 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.000 K mix, So in the liners, he's like, this is 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.520 Ricky Van Shelton. You're listening to K Mix country. The 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:27.200 cats me out. So in every liner he did, he 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.320 put some kind of cat reference in there because that 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.559 was our station. This DJ was so dumb and so 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.440 naive that he took these liners. I got back on 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.800 the phone to make it all professional and thanked them 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.480 on one of the monitors in our building. We tuned 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.800 into their station and we're just waiting, praying that he's 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:52.520 gonna play one of these liners. Stir enough, Ben, we hear, Hey, 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:57.640 this is Ricky Van Shelton and you're listening that's me 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.480 out and he goes into he plays that into a 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.640 Ricky Van Shelton song, and I swear to God, Ben, 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.880 we were dying, laughing, rolling on the floor of our 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:13.400 radio station. And when our general manager found out what 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.920 we did, he called us both in his office and 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.240 he gave both of us two dollar raises. Oh there 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.719 you go, a little raise out of it, and you know, hey, 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.760 that doesn't sound like a lot, but when you're a 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:28.040 weekend DJ at a radio station, that that was a 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.440 big deal back then as a kid, and as we 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.000 know working in radio, to get a raise out of 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.280 anyone in radio is an act of God. God to 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.480 get a raise for the rest of our time at 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.800 that station. Uh, staff would walk around and say, hey, y'all, 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:48.800 I'm Ricky Van Shelton. That's outstanding, dumb dumb. I imagine 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.319 how much trouble he got in. Oh yeah, Well, it's 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.400 just you know, you could probably still get away with 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.760 something like that today because nobody really knows what anyone 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.880 sounds like outside of like the top two of people. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.160 Everyone you don't really know for sure, and you assume 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.400 that no one's gonna punk you like that. So that's 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.760 that's great. Oh man, it's uh. I could go on 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.960 with those stories. You had quite the weekend last weekend, 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.720 My man, Dannygy, your first time you brought you popped 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.640 your cherry at a Las Vegas Raiders game, and oh 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.480 what a game it was. Yeah. Last season, I brought 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.600 the tender Roni to her very first football game, but 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.040 it was preseason. It was Rams Raiders, so we got 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.880 to check out so far. The game obviously didn't count. 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:41.360 Um overall, this was her very first NFL game that counted. Now. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.880 I've seen so many Raider games because I was a 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.720 season ticket holder in Oakland, but this was my first 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:51.200 time seeing a Raiders game at their new home, the 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:55.640 Big Roomba. Um beautiful, man. I mean, we took a 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.800 tour last year of the stadium the last time we 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.360 visited Vegas, so we knew that it was a beautiful place, 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:04.160 but we didn't get to see a football game in 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.040 there yet. So we get there bend. Um. I'll talk 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.760 about the food a little later in this podcast. That 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.920 was a whole experience. Um. The wife, he was not 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:18.600 feeling that good because she was battling morning sickness quickly. Yeah, 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.040 that was something that we had to battle. But we 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.440 finally get to our seats, and no matter where you 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.360 sit in that stadium, even if you're up high, it's 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.080 not too steep and you have a perfect view of 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.680 the field, so you could see all the wide open 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:38.720 receivers that Derek Carr is missing. It's wonderful, wonderful view 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:42.200 it more. And I guess what sums it up the 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.720 best is there was this dude down the row from us, 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.240 and in the third and the fourth quarter we could 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.520 see him. He was drinking out of a water bottle. 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.800 But it was not water in the bottle. It was 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:58.000 clear it must have been vodka. We were guessing because 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:03.680 this dude was trashed be he did the pregame thing 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.400 and he showed up and he snuck something. Okay, I 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.440 got you sure you know. There wasn't a lot of 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.600 Raiders scoring in the second half. Of course, the whole 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.560 theme of the season for the Raiders has been jump 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.360 out to a big double digit lead and then fall 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.280 asleep after that and play keep away. And that looked 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.440 like that was gonna happen in that game, right It 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.880 really yeah, it really did. This guy is nodding off 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:29.840 Ben in the third and the fourth quarter, like he 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:34.280 literally has his mouth open catching flies and his eyes 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.040 are closed, and we both took pictures of him and 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.640 we're like, now, this is hilarious. This guy right here. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.360 I spent a couple hundred bucks is take a nap. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.440 Even up high, Ben, those tickets were selling for three 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.640 d bucks and we're talking mathematically alive, but only a 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.280 five percent chance to make it to the playoffs. Can 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.080 you imagine how much those secondary market tickets would be 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.120 if they were in the playoffs. Well yeah, but that's 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.200 a lot of Boston people, right, People go to Vegas. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.400 You want to see your team a gamble in Vegas. 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.080 So that's There were some Patriots fans in the road 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.520 in front of us, and they were talking ship and 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:12.240 they started to get vocal. After the Patriots took the lead. 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.560 I turned and looked at my wife Roni, and I said, 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.680 you know what, the Raiders just need to shut them up. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.560 We got a text from somebody who was watching at 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.840 home and they were like, oh, the announcers mentioned that 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:29.080 the Patriots fans are starting to get vocal there, and 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.040 I looked at her and I said, well, we need 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.160 to shut them the hell up right now. And sure enough, 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.520 Derek Carr got his shipped together finally in that last 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.399 drive and led the team down the field, had that 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:44.920 crucial fourth down conversion, then the throw into the end zone. 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.800 It was a tie game. Suddenly that dude that was 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.600 knocked out on alcohol, he woke up and he's jumping 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.000 up and down, and we're like, yeah, we even got 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:58.560 this guy with us now. It was like, I don't 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:00.680 know what you were thinking. I was thinking, the cars 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:02.640 gonna screw this up on that drive and then then 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.600 I gonna score a touchdown. The way it's gone so 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:11.000 far this season, I did have a nervous fart in 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:15.119 me that was waiting to come out. There was a 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.440 raider fans to my left. He was making prayer hands. 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.200 He literally was praying, please don't let this happen again. 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.560 Please don't let us go out like suckers again. And 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.040 I was like, oh, maybe God is on our side today. 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.080 You know, the Patriots have the ball there, they are 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.120 moving a little bit down the field, but there wasn't 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.800 enough time on the clock for them to you know, 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.120 get into field goal range. So when there was three 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.560 seconds left, I'm thinking they're gonna throw a hail Mary 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.560 here or neil. Those are the only two options, right 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:49.320 because it's a tie game. Yeah, yeah, well you think, 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.399 well you could throw you throw a hail Mary. I 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:53.119 hope you get a penalty on the defense, and then 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:54.439 you get a free play and then you can kick 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.879 a field goal win the game. But what they did, 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:03.080 she's that's like everyone. I love Belichick, and I praised 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:04.879 Belichick a lot, but then they got to be the 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:09.560 dumbest team in the in the NFL with that play, 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.000 which originally would have been fine. They just run the ball, 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.160 they got a bunch of yards. Fine, didn't work out, 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:18.000 you know, try your luck in overtime. But Jacobe Meyers 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.199 had other ideas, Danny, he had other ideas there in 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.960 Week fifteen. It's a cliche you hear people say, the 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:28.080 roller coaster of emotions. It was such a roller coaster ride. 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.480 It was so true in this case because when Stevenson 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:36.600 broke those couple of first initial tackles and he got 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.400 down the sideline, in my head, I'm thinking, oh shit, 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.360 oh ship, because I've seen the Raiders blow a lot 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:47.280 of leads this year and lose in dramatic fashion like 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:50.359 to your Rams. So I'm thinking he is gonna break 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.439 away and run into the end zone for a game 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:58.159 winning six points. And then suddenly though defender finally had 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.879 a good angle on him, and that's what pitched the 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.520 ball backwards. So I was like, thank God, now though 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.960 I see that interception and it was like something out 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:13.320 of a movie. I could not believe what I was seeing, Like, 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:15.840 holy crap on a cracker, and I can't believe that 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:19.800 what's going on here? Oh my goodness, Ben um perfect 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.639 view of what happened because it was in our end 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:25.840 zone that he scored Chandler Jones. I didn't see the 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:29.000 stiff farm at first because it happened so fast. All 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:33.199 I saw was Mac Jones getting trucked and the buddy 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:37.000 hop and in real time in person, it just looked 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.359 like Mac Jones got destroyed. He looked like that on 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:44.040 TV two he got when Chandler Jones was on his 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:46.959 way to the end zone. I don't think I've jumped 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.639 this high since high school. He were jumping up and 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.119 down like as if we were at a House of 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:56.680 Pain concert and they were performing their hit song jump 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:02.280 Around in Unison. Thousands and thousands of Raider fans jumping 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.800 up and down like the world's largest moss fit. It 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:09.879 was insanity. I've been to some dope games before. I 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:13.159 was at the Raiders a f C Championship win. The 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:16.240 last time they went to the Super Bowl that was allowed. 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:20.720 Raucous game in Oakland, but the celebration did not compare 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:25.679 to this. They kept replaying Chandler Jones spectacular play, and 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:28.640 every time they would replay it, the fans would jump 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:31.080 up and down again as if it happened live again. 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:35.720 Was having an orgasm. It's like an orgy raider or yes, 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.800 it was a ten who was a ten minute touchdown? 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:46.560 Celebration taste like a touchdown in your mouth. Have never 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.320 seen a finish like that in my life, and to 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:53.159 have been there, I just I'm really really grateful that 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:55.919 I was there to see it with my girl, so 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:58.760 see the smile on her face and to know that 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:01.600 that's gonna be her for first experience at an NFL 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:05.399 game that counted. It was pretty magical. Man. The whole 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:09.000 city was floating. The whole city was on cloud nine. Afterwards, 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:12.520 we were going from casino to casino because we had 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:16.000 to walk back to our hotel, and the entire city 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:20.879 Bend was full of smiles and laughter and share And 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:23.080 I told her, I said, you realize, right, we were 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:25.600 just a couple of minutes away from this being the 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:28.960 exact opposite of this. Well, you would have had mobs 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:34.560 of Bostonian's mass holes. That would have been losers and all. 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:37.359 There would have been fights. There would have been Raider 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:40.400