WEBVTT - Misery Dressed in Dodger Blue 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:05.680 If you've thought more hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.200 was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.840 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:15.760 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:20.160 pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of hot takes, 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.040 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.720 Mallarck starts right now. That it does. I hope you're 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:32.080 having a great day today and have a wonderful weekend 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:36.440 whenever you consume this podcast, as it is continuing on 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:39.960 apparently doing very well, although I have not seen any 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.360 of that in my my check, but it's doing very well. 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:44.640 It's the fifth Hour with Ben mal That would be 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:48.960 me talking in the third person and David Gascon Because 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.680 four hours of a network radio show are not enough. 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:57.080 We are in the air everywhere, literally the vast power 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:01.720 of the I Heart Podcast Network, the global reach of podcasting, 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.039 and you can hear this if you're new to the podcast, 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.440 every if you like it, we're here every week, and 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.399 if you don't like it, we're only here once a week, 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:13.040 So it doesn't really matter. On the I Heart Podcast network, 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.840 where they have like big podcast stars, like all the 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.399 big names in the podcast game are on this I 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:21.560 Heart podcast network, which you probably already know by now. 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.319 Uh and it's this show is also available anyway, It's 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.200 not just I heeart. Some people say, uh. I get 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.360 a lot of people who complain about Apple uh and 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.040 say that they're not big fans of Apple. Uh. And 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.639 I usually tweet out the link to the Apple page 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.360 because there's a place to review the show. But it's 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:40.240 wherever you can get your podcast. You can hear this show. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.560 At least that's what they tell me. I haven't followed 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:47.039 up on that, but but anyway, now, Gascon, are you there? Gascon? 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.480 Wake up? Gas Guy. I gotta I gotta carry this show. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.160 It's been a tough couple of weeks for you, man. 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.440 I really feel bad for you as a as a colleague. 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.600 You have gone through some troubling times physically, emotionally mentally. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.400 You recovered from a mangled tongue and now that's right, 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.040 and you come into a new week with a butchered 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:11.920 team and then NLS Division well you, much like Clayton Kershaw, 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:17.080 I have become pretty good at doing monologues after a team. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:21.000 I care about vomits all over the field. So I 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.720 I have had so much experience between the Dodgers and 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:27.480 the Clippers and the Rams in recent years. It is 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:31.800 the Golden Age. I'm in the gold n for for suck, 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.440 for ship, and uh, I really wish we had been 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.320 doing the podcast earlier this week after the Dodging game, 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.960 I left Dodger Stadium guests Gun went in there and 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.440 it was a totally ship show and all everyone's bad, 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:49.080 a whole astro fans are busting my balls. You know, 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.600 everyone's had. You don't even care about the Dodgers. They 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.360 just love my agony, all right, And uh, I wish 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.120 I could have cursed. I would have. That would have 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.280 been one of the great profanity laced monologues of all time. 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.320 I could call that guy's a motherfucker, and that guy's 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:06.720 a piece of shit and asshole and all these words 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.320 were not supposed to say. You know. The first thing 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.280 that came to my mind was not that it was 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:14.119 a great movie, but Major League two. When Charlie Sheen, 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.239 who was Rickey Vaughn in that movie, faces off with 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:19.600 Jack Parkman, and Parkman's got his timing down and he 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.960 knows his fastball as shit, I texted you just before 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.320 Kershaw came out of the bullpen, and I said, you 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:30.680 want to see what managerial suicide is. Watch until the 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.960 same thing to my dad, and sure ship it was 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.440 a half an inning later, though, back to back Jack's 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.000 Ball Games series. Well, and listen, make Kershaw. I know 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.400 he's not trying to be this bad, but he has 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:49.040 vamboozled the Dodgers for so many years, and they resigned 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.720 the guy every one million dollars for the next two years. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.520 And and now you know the other thing that annoys 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.280 me to really talk about these assholes that are Dad 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.920 defending Kershaw, blaming Dave Roberts for all this noticing I 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.280 believe Dave Roberts is as culpability and he should be 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.360 held accountable because I don't think he's done a very 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.200 good job here in the postseason with his decisions, with 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.920 all this talent, this overwhelming talent. I get there's a 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.520 lot of eye rolls watching Dave Roberts managed the Dodgers, 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.640 but well, you should have just left Kershaw on for 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:20.480 one batter thirty one million dollar guy, thirty one million 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.960 dollar guy, Hall of Fame picture, and he's a one 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:26.440 third of an inning one out guy and then you 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:30.200 can't bring him back. I mean, what are you doing. 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.359 I don't know, but the eye popping stat that you 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:40.360 threw out during your show was seven eleven seven. Yeah, 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.479 I mean it's it's nuts, man. I I trade his ass. 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.600 I said this right after the game, and I've had 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.760 some time since then to calm down. I would trade him. 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.719 You gotta get rid of him. He just it's it 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.880 rubs off on all the This suck rubs off on 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.720 all the other players, and these young guys who were 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.760 supposedly all blue chip players from the Die Jeers, and 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.240 these guys are all a bunch of choke artists in 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.679 these games for the most part. I mean Max Munsey, 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.720 who's not even a minor league guy from the Dodgers. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.960 He came from the Athletics. He's actually been a clutch player, 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.279 Justin Turner, not a Dodger minor league guy. Also, is 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.560 there a coincidence? Did they treat they must coach these 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.440 guys in the minor leagues? All right, you are only 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.840 good until the end of the regular sty Once October started, 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.640 he like turned into a pumpkin. Uh. I know, you're 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.040 not a big laker. Guy. But this made me think 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.520 it's an understatement. But this made me think of the 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.640 Sacramento Kings in the early two thousand's. The Dodgers are 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.760 made for a hundred sixty two game regular season, much 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.359 like the Sacramento Kings are during the regular season, but 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.880 when it came to postseason time, they could not nut 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.280 up against the Lakers. Came down to something that might 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.800 be true now, it wasn't true in I mean, they 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.839 had that and they they vomited that away. But Bellinger 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.000 wasn't even good in that series. Though against the House. 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.400 He hasn't been good in the playoffs his entire career. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.160 It's gonna be so embarrassing when he wins the m 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.000 v P Award and he had no home runs, no 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.200 r b I s in the National League Divisional Series. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.479 It's gonna be ridiculous. But anyway, we gotta get on 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:11.919 with the show. This hooting Nanny in Benny's kitchen. We 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.360 will have hanging with the elites. I will have that. 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.719 That's an exclusive thing on this show. I opening study 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.680 this which I love. Agony of defeat. That's a new thing, 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:28.039 and it's in the bag in our panic word tonight 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:32.599 or today for all of our listeners as hornswoggle. All right, 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.000 I got you, and uh and also I don't stick 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.359 to sports. That's guest CON's baby. He'll put the baby 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:42.160 to bed with that. But we begin on this podcast 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.280 with hanging with the Elites. Now, I have been asked 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:49.119 a lot of questions about my night with Marlin's Man, 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.520 Game two of the National League Divisional Series at Chavez 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.560 RAVI in sitting in the fourth row. I've had a 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.760 lot of questions from people that are curious super fans 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.360 of the show. They want to know more about this, 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.840 How did this happened? What's what was Marlin's man like? Uh, 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.840 they want to know about him, his life and all 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.480 this stuff. So I believe we spent a couple of minutes. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.480 I don't spent too long, is but we can reveal 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:17.559 some exclusive details. No other podcast has this. Eddie. No, Eddie, 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.160 that's a bad job. I'd beat Well, you kind of 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.640 sound like Eddie. No, you do what? You look like him? 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.000 All right, So now here's the shut up guest gun 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.320 who cares about your name? All right? Anyway, I'll call 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.360 you Eddie if I want to call you Eddie. But uh, 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.400 we we have some some details here, so I'd like 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.280 to share some of these. No one else has these, 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.920 no other party Joe Rogan doesn't have this. No nobody 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:44.680 all right and not at all. So now Marlin's Man, 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.280 I mentioned on the little bit, he he actually invited me. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:52.080 I sat with him one time before a Dodgy Yankee game. 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:53.520 But I only did that, like in the fifth inting, 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.480 uh and uh. He is a fan of the show. 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.600 He listens not all the time, but he's up late 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:04.120 in Miami where he lives, and he is a consumer 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:07.640 of the of the radio show. He likes the what 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.280 we do here, and so that that's pretty cool that 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.200 he's a Mallard militia guy. And we talked about it. 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:15.640 The funny thing is we would talk about in the air. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:17.720 And the reason I mentioned I called you Eddie's because 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:19.560 I had I was gonna in my head. I wanted 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.760 to mention Eddie because when I first started talking about 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.320 Marlin's Man, his real name is Lawrence Levy. When I 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.400 first started talking to Lawrence about Lawrence on the air, 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:29.320 and I said how much I revered him, and I 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.480 love that this guy was, you know, just a rich 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.040 guy going to games, living the dream you know every 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:37.880 sports fans dream. He's doing it, hustling, going traveling, going 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.440 to airports and all this stuff. And Eddie just trashed 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.000 the guy. I hates the guy. So it was this 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.559 awkward situation where I'm praising him and he's a listener 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:50.200 and Eddie's just killing him and uh but fortunately he 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.199 didn't hold that against uh against So I sat in 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.360 the dugout squeez he ever sat in the dugout sweets 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.720 at Dodger Stadium. I actually sent sat there Back in 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.199 my twenties. I was working for City Group and it 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.559 was like thirty years ago. I know, they had that 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.720 titled company had given me some comp seats and it 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:09.840 was it's all you can eat, all you can drink, 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.920 and then includes alcohol. You were in a boogie spot. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:15.880 it was. It was wild. I mean it was first 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.439 class all the way. Big celebrities. I don't know who 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.960 most of these stars are now in Hollywood, but I 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:26.120 recognized old people like Mary Hart, Magic Johnson and Scott 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:27.679 Boris and people like that. But there were a bunch 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.000 of other people that were people were oh did you 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.240 see that, Pert. That's a typical Hollywood bullshit, you know. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.160 I look at that. But you know it's like, well, 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:39.480 you want a great start to compliment this Monday. Monday 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:43.160 I go to go see my orthodonist and he's he's 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.440 a great guy in the South Bay area. The first 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.760 thing he says to me, not talking about me, not 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.040 talking about my grill, he says, how the hell did 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:57.800 Ben Maller score seats behind home plate? Listen to yours? 0:09:58.200 --> 0:09:59.880 And all of a sudden he just starts talking to you. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.440 You guys are BF But I said, said, man, dude, 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.520 he lived that. He lead us good life. You've got 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:12.720 that white collar. Uh clearly. Be sure to catch live 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.439 editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two a m. 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:19.280 Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.160 I Heart Radio app. Now, I do have a story this. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.199 This is the exclusive part of this here. Gas got 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:29.200 so the way this works here, you know, you get 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.839 a front row seat at the baseball game. And like 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.080 a lot of these ballparks, the Yankees do this have 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.480 My my cousin went to a Yankee game. You pretty 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.200 much just ate seafood the entire time and didn't even 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.000 watch the Yankee game. Not big sports fan. She had 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.160 seats behind Home played. Her company gave her the seats, 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.880 so the Dougouts Sweet section at Diger Stadium. They have 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.520 all this all you can eat food, but it's like 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.840 high quality. You know, usually you go to a buffet 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.120 and dog food. You know, it's chicken feet that they 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.720 serve you. But they have all the finest foods and 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:00.960 meats and all this stuff. It was overwhelming. It was 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.800 all of my senses were overwhelmed by this. There's a 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:08.280 guy with the chef's hat cutting prime rib, spare ribs 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:12.760 over here, gigantic shrimp and other seafood over there. They 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:17.000 had a an Asian themed booth. They had a Mexican 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.840 food over there, and it was just overwhelming. So I 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:22.800 grabbed it. Now that markin but you know it's it's 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.560 Marlin's Man's saved the seat for me to sit right 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.040 next to him. So I, me and Lawrence are gonna 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.400 sit together. We're gonna have uh, you know, a dinner 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:34.520 in bullshit. So I grabbed a plate and I went 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:38.440 on a food scavenger hunt. I passed over the prime rib, 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:43.360 I walked past the short ribs. I dodged like a 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.360 good running back. I was able to dodge the tackler. 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.640 That was the the Asian food, and uh and and 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.840 all the rest. And then I saw this line of 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:57.040 kids and and uh it was the burger station. They 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:01.200 had burgers and fries as field as high as the 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.680 sky to the heavens right. And I saw this. My 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.080 eyes lit up. I said, who doesn't like a hamburger? 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.280 Who does not enjoy a hamburger and French fries? So 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:14.120 I loaded up my plate and then I probably went back. 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.280 I got a drink. I went back. I sat next 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.960 to Lawrence marlins Man. He takes one look at my plate, 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.640 guest on hand to God. He says, what is that 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.400 he's looking at? What are you getting? Hamburger? Is fine? 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.080 Rip over there? And I paid for this ticket and 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:33.720 uh yeah, and so he uh he shamed me, which 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.720 I don't blame him, because I I picked the cheapest 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.480 item on the menu where all the eight year olds 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.720 were eating, and uh, I picked the burgers and fries. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:43.480 But he said to go get some better food. So 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.080 I had. I did actually get some higher class food, 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.720 not that I enjoyed it, but I did it because 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:50.880 I had to get banged for your buck and all that. 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.000 Why couldn't you do that later on the ball game, 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.439 like in the fifth or sixth inning. Well, because I 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.720 didn't want to leave the seat, like I only left 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.360 to go to the bathroom and that was it. Like 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.520 I I stayed in that seat pretty much the entire game. 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.160 I think I left twice to go to the bathroom 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.079 and that was it. But it's your time. When Kurt 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.000 Suzuki got hit in the face a good time, well 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.040 that was not that. That was That was the other game. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:13.719 That was. That was not I was at that game 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.120 in the press box and what But but to give 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:22.800 you some follow up on this guest gun, I signed autographs, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.640 I took photos. I posed for pictures with people, all 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:30.079 because hanging out with Marlin's man, just being around Marlins man. 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.480 And you know, when I meet people who don't know me, 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.960 I don't say, hey, I'm mr. Radio guy. I don't 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.719 promote the show that way. I'm I'm I'm an introvert. 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.760 We don't do that. I'm not wired that way. I'm 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.599 not a self promoter, which is odd because on the 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:46.360 radio people said I'm a self promoter all the time, 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.280 but in person, I don't actually promote that way. I 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:50.880 think you know you're a douche when you did that. 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.320 But marlins Man is like, hey, this guy's on the radio. 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:54.880 You know what I mean to give me the whole rap. 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.480 He's like my PR guy. And so all these people 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.320 that are meeting marlins Man, some of them are like, hey, 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:04.360 let's meet out, let's get his I signed to Dodger jerseys. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:09.240 I mean, it's unbelievable. No, I hope those aren't the 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:13.320 jerseys that we saw after Game five when Dodger fans 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.600 are running over on at Chavez Riena's there. I did 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:17.520 see that. That was well, that's a that's a new 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.920 level because you can wash the jersey after you read 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.040 it over so you don't ruin it, but so you 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.560 can keep it. But it looks you show your disdain, 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:29.520 right you you show how annoyed you are, uh and 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.640 all that. So that's that's not not bad. But Marl's man, 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.480 where does he rank now on your listener power rankings? 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.080 That guy he's there with Doc Mike. I gotta put 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.640 blind Scott up there always because he's are are blind listener? 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.640 I mean there's a core four at any one time 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.560 in the Mallet militia. The hierarchy of the mallet militia. 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:51.800 But even I don't meet a lot of the fans 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:53.720 of the show. I wish I could meet more, but 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:55.680 they don't. They don't let me out of the box 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.920 very often. But I would say, you know, Doc Mike, 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.160 because he drove all the way in Chicago to Kansas City, 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:05.720 hang out with me. Uh. This guy, although he doesn't, 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:07.520 he's not calling right now. I don't know what happened 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.560 to him. This guy David in Florida, winter Park, Florida, 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.240 he's got to be up there. He drove all away 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:17.040 from Winter Park, Florida, Boston. Uh. And our guy in Toronto, 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.880 and Michael in Toronto who drove from Toronto. The ball. 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.520 I mean, these guys that is that is tremendous there 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.440 to do that, to go above and blind. Scott obviously 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.960 been very loyal over the years. He's up there. Um, 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:31.720 you know, so there's there's a there's a group. But 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.440 marlins Man as far as because he's loaded, I mean, 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.240 I a lot of these guys. I don't blame people, 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.200 you know, and most people aren't loaded. Marlins Man is 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.080 a very successful lawyer. He's got a law firm that 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.200 does to law firms. I mean this is very well 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.360 and good for him. He's I don't look down upon 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.840 people's success. I'm happy for him. And he gives back 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.160 him all that stuff. He charter his own flight or 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:56.320 does he take commercial airlines? No, I mean he's uh, 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.600 I don't know all of it, but he um like this. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.320 This past week, he had told me that I he 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.200 wasn't sure if he was gonna come to the Dodger game. 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.000 He end up sitting next to a beautiful model that's 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.120 a friend of his instead of me, which I don't 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.560 blame before at all, but but he told me, like 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:13.800 he said, you know, I'm gonna He had to do 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.880 some business in Miami, so he couldn't go to any 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.880 games Monday or Tuesday. And then he said, you know, 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.880 I might go Wednesday if there's a game five. And 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.280 he wasn't sure whether he was gonna go to Atlanta 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.480 or Los Angeles. And then he decided to come, uh 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.240 to to l A. And and but he decided like 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:33.640 Tuesday night, I just I'm gonna go to the game. 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:35.440 And you know how expensive a flight is. At the 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.200 last minute, you call an airline or go to the 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.360 website and you want to buy a ticket, the last minute. Typically, uh, 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:45.280 not a good deal. All right, we gotta move on. 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.600 I opening this is a real quick so guest on 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.640 last week, me and the wife. All right, we're going 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:53.600 on to El Coyote. Were my favorite Mexican restaurants. You've 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.520 been there with me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I MA. I 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:57.920 mocked the fact that I was there and you were 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.360 not there, because I love El Coyote. I'm bet in 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:01.800 l A. If you're in l A, you gotta love 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.399 l Kind. I still right near there, and that was 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.199 my spot, and I've raised the prices a lot, but 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.560 I still love the food. Um, and I'll go there 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.560 very often. So I'm I'm on my way to this 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.600 El Coyote Mexican restaurant right on Beverly there in l A. 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.080 And we're stopped at a red light. We were, I remember, 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.399 we're Vermont and Beverly, and we pulled up to a 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.359 red light and I see this this poor old man 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:29.040 pushing a shopping card. He looked so disheveled, right and broke, 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.399 and I remember turning to my wife and saying that 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.000 I was how bad I felt for the guy. And 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.080 then as he got in front of the car, I 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.720 noticed that he was holding rather limply in his hand 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:46.600 a smartphone that was bigger and better and newer than me. 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:51.320 And I'm like, this is homelessness in twenty nine and 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:56.879 this guy and it was unbelievable. The guy I guess 0:17:56.880 --> 0:18:00.800 got his phone was like twice the size. Oh mind, 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:06.199 I mean, it's it's un I mean I in l A. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.240 I know this is a problem in San Francisco where 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.440 people are pooping on the street and it's uh, it's 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.320 the Third World, Sodom and gomorrow. But in l A 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:17.840 it's ten city. Man, It's unreal. All the politicians in 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.159 l A are are completely clueless. They don't know what 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.119 to do. It's all over the place too, it is. 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.879 It is rampant in downtown Los Angeles. It's kind of 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:30.439 near us in Studio City, Sherman Oaks. That and the 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:32.280 thing that where we are in Sherman Oaks, which is 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.199 a very wealthy part of Los Angeles because a lot 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.520 of money, a lot of Hollywood people live in the 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:39.960 Hills of bel Air, is just up the road, not 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.560 far from where we are we do the show from. 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:46.239 And uh, you're right, man, I see it more than 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.200 anybody because I'm leaving there, you know, in the middle 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.560 of the night, and I'm seeing poor people, you know, 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:52.840 just laying all over the street. You're allowed to lay 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:56.359 on the street in they all see. It's like the 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:58.800 streets rolled up. In the morning when people go to work, 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:02.359 it's like it's wild. It's like the overnight. I wonder 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.960 how many of those people are aware of of of 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.919 what's what's going on while they're sleeping. Uh, I don't know. 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.280 An iPhone ten rocking it. That's so good. Oh my god, 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.000 I wish I had taken a photo because it was 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:18.439 this guy. He's pushing a shopping cart and he's just 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.840 that's probably all of his life's possessions right there, and 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.679 he's he's got like the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:28.920 he's he's holding this phone. It makes my phone. Oh 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.000 my god. Well, you know, when I lived in San 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.760 Diego and working for Extra Sports thirteen sixty, the local 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.320 NBC down there, their affiliate actually did a great story 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.200 because in Mission Valley they have two malls. They have 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.600 the Mission Valley Mall and then the Fashion Valley Mall. Yeah. 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.040 I used to be a Fashion Valley mall, so so 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:48.000 you know, exactly what I'm talking about. There's a main 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.800 street called Friar's Road, and what they did was they 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:56.000 used to do some special investigative reporters sending them out 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.639 there and they would monitor panhandlers throughout the day. People 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.720 that you just described, they would monitor them because they 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:04.520 were out in front of the Fashion Valley mall off 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:08.160 of Friar's Road. I remember distinctly one woman was tailed 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:11.080 at the start of the day until the end. They 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:18.840 followed her all the way to her mansion in Lahoya. Well. 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:22.359 I remember John Stossel, who's uh, I don't know if 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.200 he's still working the news guy. He did an amazing 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.399 story on one of those news programs years Honestly, I 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:32.200 remember watching this and he he went out and pretended 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.879 to be homeless and painhandled the New York City on 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.160