WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: One NFL Legend & Two Dopes 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.480 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.240 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.920 the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.800 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.240 pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of Hot takes 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.080 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:33.199 Maller starts right now, nine nine in the air, everywhere, 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:37.199 back at it live on tape. It's a podcast. We're 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:39.040 not live. It's a podcast. We do you think live, 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:41.680 but we're hanging out on radio road. Is the Fifth 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:46.040 Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g All weekend long 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.960 as we are part of the machine, the football machine, 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.159 the hype up super Bowl fifty seven and Danny g 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.560 I'm looking around here and I'm still seeing a lot 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.200 of people who are who are trying to sell it 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.160 has a swap meat feel to it. It does feel 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.639 like a swap meat like I have the magic beans 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.440 that will make it rain. Put me on your radio show, 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.840 Put me on your podcast for ten minutes, and I'm 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.160 gonna make magic. What do you see right now? Look? 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:16.440 The Great LaVar Arrington is posing with fans for photos. 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.800 You know how, on the Friday Penning podcast, you mentioned 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.959 that you saw the fake Andy Reid. I did. I 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.600 was blown away by that guy. Well, all week long 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.959 there has been the older version of a LaVar Arrington 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.640 walking around. He looked spinning image of LaVar, but he's 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.880 walking with a cane and his goatee is white. And 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.119 every time he goes by, I tell CNR, I'm like, look, 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:44.080 there's LaVar Arrington. Yeah, that is your future. That is 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:48.120 going to happen to you down the line, wild and crazy. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:51.600 So on this the Saturday edition of the Fifth Hour 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.680 with Ben Mallard and Danny g we are gonna have 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:57.560 I can't even say who this is. This is such 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.520 a big name. Danny, Oh my god, I'm gonna make 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.600 I'm gonna make you wait for this name. It is 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.920 like it is going to break the podcast. It's my 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:11.400 favorite line all week long from Radio row here. Oh boy, 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.839 and the big names walking around You'll never you never 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:18.480 know who's gonna stop. You have big names plan for you. 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:24.120 Uh uh. Some some observations. But we're better liars than you, 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.280 by the way. Oh yeah, I'm a terrible liar and 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.079 I I was actually texting a couple of guys that 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.240 do radio shows back East, and we were like, man, 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.680 like so many of these guys who are like total 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:37.799 hard old guys, like they are really about it, and 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.560 I'm like, I can't be that guy, Like I love 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.880 kind of like mocking all of this. But I was 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.040 walking around after I did the Overnight show and and 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.360 these guys are like breaking down the XS and those, 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.040 you know, They're like really into it, and I'm like, 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.000 what are you doing though we're talking about football? Who 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:52.840 wants to hear that? You know, come on speaking. I'm 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.000 attached to the two Perfect shows because earlier in the 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.320 week there was this junket upstairs here at the convention Center. 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:04.040 It was all the Fox TV personalities and announcers that 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.920 we're gonna be doing the Super Bowl. So you had 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:11.040 everybody from Grant to Charles Woodson to that was the 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:15.679 one Terry dropped, dropped the dirt on Sean Payne. He 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:19.040 spilled the beans. So so we're trying to get in 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:23.600 there with the Covino enriched microphone ben and all these uh, 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.000 you know, TV stations from around the country. We're asking 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:31.280 these stupid, hard old football questions. What do you think 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:35.080 about Patrick mahomes health? What percentage would you put them at? 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.400 And and and Covino Ritz were trying to ask a 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:45.280 Casey barbecue or or a Philly cheese, and we were 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.640 looked at us if we were aliens, and like, you 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.960 guys can get out of And the thing that's amazing, 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.280 Like and I noticed when I was doing the website. 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.560 I haven't on the website in a long time. The 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.520 things that people actually want to hear about are about 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:02.640 barbecue and cheese. They could nobody wants to hear about 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.600 breaking down the four three defense or the three four defense. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:07.240 Who the hell wants to do that? Maybe if you're 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.080 a high school football coach, But if you're just a fan, 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.280 you wanna you wanna make these people human beings. You know, 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:17.599 it's ridiculous. Um. Anyway, so before we we bring in 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:22.760 big name this again, download record, download record here someone 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.760 related to the Super Bowl, Massive name right around the corner. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:32.640 I'm hoping it's it's it's story time. It's story time 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.760 on the fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:42.360 And who doesn't enjoy a good travel log A Mallard travelog, 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:48.279 And we have a doozy. So this kind of happened 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.200 at the last minute coming to the Super Bowl. I'm 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.360 very happy to be here. It's been great, it's been fun. 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.080 I hope to do this again next year Danny in 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.720 Vegas in sin City, hopefully that will we'll take place. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.320 And so to kind of set the scene here that 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.280 the travel arrangements were not made far in advance. I 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:10.360 did not realize up until shortly before I came here 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.960 to Arizona that I would be coming. I heard rumors 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.320 that it might happen, but you don't know what you 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.520 don't know, and you don't know it's gonna happen until 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:22.000 it happened. And so I didn't say anything on the 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:26.240 radio show, and I didn't tweet anything out. And the 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.720 reason I didn't is because I was worried it might 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:32.320 not happen. I didn't want the Mallard jinks to be 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:36.320 in effect. I was trying to avoid the Mallard jinks. Yeah, 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.800 so there is that. But well, Bennett turns out that 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:45.800 you didn't lie about Yeah, we're gonna interrupt you right now. 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:47.600 And it was just it was just telling a story 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.360 about I was in the middle of a story and 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.560 what happened. We're gonna get back to your story in 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.520 just a moment. Here, you see, we're gonna We're gonna 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.560 get miked up here. Let me see we got two 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.680 mikes there you go. All right. See you thought I 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.560 was I was false advertising. You thought I was full 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.640 of crap. I was not. I was not. This is 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.479 very important podcast. Well we can turn your mind on here. 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.280 This is very important here. We're live on it's a 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.919 fifth hour, live on tape here, the fifth Hour with 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.280 Ben Maller and Danny g Radio as we hang out 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:22.039 with Scott podcast dojo. Oh, they're bringing up plate. There's 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:23.800 a plate of food. Is that food over there? What 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.599 do we have? We've uh, you don't want to eat that? Bai? 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.040 What is like chicken? Those are cold? Right? Those are 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:39.960 cold chicken cold? The legend it's like Smith, the all 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:45.880 time leading Russia's son, nice enough to join us. Welcome, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.600 Thank you guys, thank you. Yea a fun week so far, 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.920 of course, I mean, I'm with my wingmen right, any 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.160 better than that? How many how many of these? How 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:57.480 many of these have you done, by the way at 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.440 this point through the week and all that, I mean, 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:04.000 I only did it today. Um, but yeah, maybe around 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.320 like what, Yeah, we've been to a couple of so 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.120 as your as your old man like schooled you on 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.200 the process. He back in the day, he did all 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.480 these things forever, so as he taught you like ten 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.000 years ago, it's kind of hard to school him on 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.920 the process. He's just join the moment now, he's now 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.200 he's seeing how all of it comes together when you 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.240 when you're in college and so forth, and now you're 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:28.280 around the big game itself officially. Now it's it's becoming 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.560 more real. Yeah, I mean I've done my due diligence, 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.360 and i mean he's a great mentor. So I've always 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.040 watched him since I was the kids. So now what 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.160 was it like, because like I've heard stories from like 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.520 your dad was like a big time deal, Like did 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.440 you like love your dad or did you're like like 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.160 did you like other guys because your dad was like 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:47.520 you know you all you knew it was your dad, right, 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.240 I mean, yeah, he was my he was my pop. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.280 So like I've never really saw him as you know, 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.480 the m smith that you guys see. Yeah, so I've 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.720 always had other people that I've always looked at or 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.520 even him telling me who to look at, um. And 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.240 so with that, I mean, yeah, he's just my pops, 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.960 you know, I hear you. That's great. Well, well, it's 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.720 great to have you guys on and and and but 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.360 I want to ask you now, these athletes today, it's 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.720 it's not so much you need well that this generation though, 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:16.000 that's like load management and all that. You know that's 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.600 going on and all that, Like, uh, when you you 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.120 were playing and one of the reasons you have the 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.040 rushing record, you know you played, you kept playing, you 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:24.920 were banged up, you keep going on. What do you 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:28.360 think about this new generation the guys that and it's 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.440 not so much in football, but it's coming to football 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:36.160 that are kind of cutting to me. I think it's exactly, um, 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:41.320 what the the game. It's somewhat requiring because of a 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:45.920 lot of the concussion protocol issues that's been been talked about, 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:52.560 and where the probably the a lot of the the 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.959 hits are coming from. And so I think it's also 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.760 part of the marketing scheme also to devalue certain positions 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:04.880 for whatever reason. Um, And I think most of those 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:09.880 reasons are are related to high scoring games. What's not fun, 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:11.840 it's not fun to see the clock, tik tik tik tik, 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.760 take away through the run game. But it's fun to 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.760 see the ball in the air, catching the balls and 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:19.440 guys performing in the end zone. That's great, but uh, 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:24.800 you know, it's it has taken away the essence of 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:28.080 what the game, how the game was actually made, and 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.560 how the game was meant to be played. In the beginning, 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:36.320 I'm okay with the forward pass, but at the expense 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:40.640 of the game itself, I'm not. Uh. That's why I mean, 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.760 dbs don't have a chance right now. Uh, and big 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:49.400 hitters don't have a chance right now. I saw um 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:54.360 a Twitter feed this morning. I believe Ryan Clark knocked 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:58.040 a living breath out of West Walker this morning on 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:02.600 something the way we use to play football that doesn't exist. 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:04.680 That hit right now will get you kicked out of 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:11.040 the world. So so it's different what young running backs 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.280 in the league right now? Do you kind of admire? 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.199 You see some of yourself and them maybe uh, not many, 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.679 because I mean, when I see myself, I'm looking at 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:23.880 a style, uh not necessarily performance wise, how you look 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.600 in the uniform, how he moves in uniform, and mark 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:31.839 ingram to me has come become the closest to me. Um, 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.600 I can't really see too many other guys in that light. Yeah, 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.679 what was the Lebron James this week? Broke the story? Right? 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.640 Do you have the rushing record? Do you think that 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.280 you think about unbreakable records? The way the games played 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.800 these days, do you ever think about somebody breaking your 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.679 mark for rushing yards? I don't think about it, But 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.439 do you think it will happen? I believe if a 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.880 human data before another human can do it again. I 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.679 mean this, this is very cyclical right now. That might 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.880 be that might be a technology that develops that nobody 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.960 can get a concussion and you might be able to 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.560 protect bodies a lot better now, and then gods can 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.280 just go for it. And if that happens, you never 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:16.760 know what might happen. And so I'm a firm believer 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:18.679 that if a man did it before a man can 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.240 do it again, will I be around to see it? 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:25.120 I don't know, But until then I'm gonna stay where 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.839 I'm at on top of the very top. Was speaking 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:33.240 of basketball? Is your family have a favorite basketball team? 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:38.760 I mean, we don't really watch basketball. That was ever 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.240 bolting growing up? Was it only football? And what other 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.360 stuff we're growing up? What's the what's a growing up 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.520 with that? In that house? Was it all sports or 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.040 were you guys were like, I mean, we could do 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:48.920 whatever we wanted say. I mean he was really open 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:52.239 minded about that. I mean I I played, I played basketball, 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:56.600 I mean I would played golf, played tennis, played soccer, track. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.439 I mean I did everything, and I mean it swim 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:06.400 better than me. The worst punishment you ever got a 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:13.960 little boat when here and there had to yeah, exactly, Uh, 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.080 and you guys are here because uh, I see you 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.400 said not do not eat the chicken wings. But it's 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:23.040 not about the chicken wings? What is it about. I'm 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:26.160 gonna just saying this as we in pro approached this weekend. 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.600 This is a weekend of festivities for a lot of people. 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.960 There's gonna be family members coming over, other folks, house, 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.720 friends coming over, people house. Super Bowl party is gonna 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.679 be a galore, and every Super Bowl part is always 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.280 gonna be a mess, some type of mess. Somebody's gonna 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.880 have to clean up something, and everybody's gonna have their 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.000 pick of food. Wings is gonna be part of it, 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.280 Ribs can be part of it, Sauces can be part 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:54.480 of all kinds of things. And wherever there are wings 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.520 and sauces is always going to be a mess. And 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.320 for us, you cannot play. You cannot have wings without football. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.120 You cannot have football with out wings, and cannot have 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.920 wings without bounty. And so bounty is there to help 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:10.079 you clean things up. I mean, who not who's not 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.440 trying to eat good and have a good time, but 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.040 yet who don't want to clean up? I don't want 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:16.839 to clean up after all that cooking, But if I'm 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:18.360 gonna clean up with something, I want to clean up 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:19.679 with something that's gonna help me get it out the 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.400 way fairly quickly and not have things stick to my 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:26.079 hands and enjoy the moment as we're enjoying the game 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.720 and watching Rihanna do things. I didn't know what you 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:32.040 guys we're gonna be talking about, but we have bounty. 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.120 So I want you to know my house, we have bounties. 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.000 You try some of that other stuff that just you wrapping, 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.720 steal sticking on the things, and every bounty just cleans 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.600 it off. You do not need that. Listen, guys, I 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:46.120 know you gotta go, you gotta go do some more 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.280 of this, But thank you for stopping by. Thank you, guys, 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:53.000 appreciate it. Appreciate it, and thank you, and I want 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:58.800 your dad's watch. By the way, hanging out with us, 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.600 you're as back, but you weren't lying. That was a 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.160 big name, No, the all time leading rusher in the 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.920 NFL who just like, I'm I'm in mid stance, I'm 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:09.800 about to tell a story about me staying at a 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.679 crappy hotel. And I turned around and there's the all 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.440 time leading rusher in NFL history who's sitting down, like 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.440 what the hell? And and of course his son was 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.680 carrying a thing of wings. Yeah, And because you had 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:23.480 mentioned you were hungry and you were trying to get 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.440 some food, so I thought, well, look somebody must have 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.000 brought wings for Danny g And I was like, well, 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:29.880 maybe I'll have a wing. I'll break my fast for 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.440 with a wing. And I'm like, well, no, I'm not 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.600 gonna I'm not gonna break my fast with a wing. 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.200 And they were like emmitting his son were like you 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.840 probably probably shouldn't do that, but that was that was 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.120 kind of cool. That was good to have mmin on. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.600 So now you don't have to wait and see when 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.960 I say something. When I say, we're gonna have a 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.320 big name. Boom. It happened just like that. And now 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.840 I'm gonna because now the next interview they give us, 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.120 it's gonna be somebody. I don't know what you're talking about, 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.040 but but I do have I actually do have the 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.400 the paper towels that he was pitching, so I happen 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.160 to have that at my house. Be sure to catch 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.800 live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.480 a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:15.920 and the I Heart Radio app. So travel Stories. Everyone 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:17.720 loves a good travel story, So I'll pick up where 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.440 we left off before we were interrupted by the all 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.840 time leaning rusher in the NFL, the great Emmitt Smith 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.600 in his son. So traveling here, I didn't know until 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:27.840 kind of before, right before we were coming, I was 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.160 I was gonna be here. So the travel was booked 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:35.120 at the last minute, and I flew an airline where 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:38.520 you don't get a reserve seat. Um, it's an airline 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.200 that had some major problems back in December. The weather, 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.640 it did not go so well for them. Their stock 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.360 wanting to toilet. But Tim, fine, I don't, I don't 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.040 I've flown that airline before. I have no problem with it. Um. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.520 But we got there and we were in group C, 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.760 and I was the next last person getting on the plane, 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:00.920 which guaranteed I had to do the awkward excuse me, 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.680 I need that middle seat, which was the next to 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.120 last seat that was available. So I had to sit 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:07.920 on the middle seat, which but unfortunately it's a very 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.160 short flight from from l A to Phoenix, so it 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.359 didn't take that long. But then the next layer, Danny, 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:17.000 we get into the Valley of the Sun and we 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.600 take the uber to the hotel. Now again this was 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.080 all last minute. There's a massive golf tournament going on 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:28.080 this weekend, the waste management whatever it's called, which I'm 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.360 not really familiar with. I kind of goofed on it. 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.320 But like if you're a hard old golf fan, this 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.240 is like awesome. It's like a big party scene. And 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.920 they estimate the uber driver said, there's like two hundred 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:43.760 thousand people that are coming into this area for that. Yeah, 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:48.240 bringing one billion dollars Phoenix. And it's like one of 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.400 those things too, because you you go into Arizona and 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.000 like a lot of these people, I'm not going to 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.200 the super Bowl. You're not going to the super Bowl 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:59.440 because you can't afford it? Are you? Are you from? 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.160 I think my man Don Martin back there, he's got 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:06.240 a stack of tickets. Tickets, man, but they're clients and 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.359 exactly no. So but like the waste management thing, you 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.359 can get in for a few owner bucks or whatever, 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.119 so you can go hang out. And I guess the 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.040 way they were explaining, they're all drinking. So anyway, a 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.840 point of this, all the good hotels were booked. So 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.000 I was on the phone with our boss and we 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.119 were trying to make travel arrangements. And originally I was 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:28.080 just gonna come by myself. Uh and uh. He had 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.639 a couple of options for hotels, and so I picked. 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:32.840 I don't know these hotels, so I picked one of 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.280 the hotels, and my wife decides, well, she wanted to 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.040 come with me because I we have some family here. 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.480 Her brother actually is visiting the Phoenix area just but 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:42.440 he's not a football fan. He just happened to be here. 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:44.439 So my wife's like, well, I want to come and 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.200 hang out and whatever. So I was like, well that's great. 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:47.880 You know, I'm gonna be there working most of the time, 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.040 but you know, and I didn't even realize we could 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:51.640 kind of let her in a little bit to see 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.480 how we do things. Uh, Jonas, Actually I learned from 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.080 Jonas the other day that that was an option. I 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.119 didn't know that was an option. So so anyway, we 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.720 get in the uber. We go to a hotel and 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:02.920 you know, my wife a little bit. She dresses much 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:08.000 better than me. She wears nice clothes, dresses, jackets, jewelry. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.000 So we get out of the uber and we walk 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:14.600 into the hotel and as we are walking in, it's 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:18.119 like the zombie apocalypse. I don't know what kind of 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:21.000 drugs these people are on at this hotel, but that 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:22.960 was the first sign. Boy, this is probably not good. 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.160 But maybe he's leaving. Maybe the guy's leaving and he's 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.960 not staying there. So we thought, maybe that's that, Uh 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:30.359 a bad part of town. I don't know what a 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.160 bad but I've been here a lot over the years, 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.400 but it didn't look like the greatest part of town. 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:38.119 But I've been in worse places. So anyway, and I 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.000 walk in, there's a guy walking out. He looks like 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.719 he's been doing math or whatever. He's been up for 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:44.760 like a week, and so I'm like, oh, this is 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.600 not good. So I'm like, we go into the front 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.159 of the desk where you gotta get the key and 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:54.840 check in. There's bulletproof glass of the person. Always that's 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.359 always a good sign. And for me, Ben, that takes 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.840 me back to home, that makes me feel at home. Yeah. Yeah. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:01.600 Then I'm like, well that's not a good sign. So 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:05.880 now we've got two strikes. Um, then we got the key. 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.639 I'm like, well, maybe it's you know, maybe this rooms 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:12.480 are nice. You know, it's nice. You know, it's like 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.440 it's tell me they did not have the nineteen seventies 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:18.959 style comforter on that ugly golden kind of color. So 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.280 then we keep going. We now have to get in 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:23.440 the elevator to go up to the floor we're staying at. 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:27.240 As we're getting into the elevator, uh, and I feel bad, 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:31.080 but a family with groceries was coming in. They were living, 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:35.240 they were living at the hotel. So it now it's 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:39.200 like a homeless shelter with people doing drugs and bulletproof glass, 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:41.480 and and it's like, oh, boy, did your wife make 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.080 you leave and find another hotel? Well it gets better, 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:48.040 So we didn't. I'm like I'm trying. I'm Benny bright Side, 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.760 I'm trying to be optimistic, like, oh, it's gonna be okay, 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:58.320 don't worry. Okay, we can make sandwich with that family. Now, remember, 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.679 my wife's all dressed up, you know, and I'm dressed 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.920 like a radio slob, and she's all dressed up, and 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:07.000 so I fitted I could have stayed there. So we 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.840 get to the room. The room looked like it hadn't 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:14.000 been cleaned since the eighties, right, So there's dust, there's 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:20.399 the doors. Had you know that black electrical Yeah, oh 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:22.600 it was terrible. No, it didn't really smell like there 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.160 was like cracks in the floor in the bathroom. It 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:30.359 was unbelievable. And so my wife starts freaking out. She's like, well, 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:32.000 what you're going to do the over night show? I'm 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.119 gonna be here by myself. You didn't look at the 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:36.800 Yelp or the ratings or anything on this place before 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:40.600 you ordered into national hotel chain? It is it doesn't 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.080 I would assume that if it's a national chain that 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:47.800 they would have some you know, like if you're always 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.119 should go to Yelp to get the real photos whatever. 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:53.600 I was getting ready for the show, so I find 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:55.240 I gave it. I mean I felt like I was 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.480 in Afghanistan or something like that. I mean it was 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:01.919 like a demilitarized zone at this point. And uh and 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:03.440 I just I was like, you know, what reminded me 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:06.359 of like an old school comedy, Like that's the scene 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:08.560 from an old comedy. I was living a movie. Like 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.159