WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: RIP, Big Sexy 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Cutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.479 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:29.440 with Ben Maller starts right now in. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:34.600 The Air of Reware. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:38.520 Mahler and Danny g Radio. A happy Saturday to you 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:44.760 as we continue to provide fresh piping hot pods. Reminder, 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:49.760 we have NFL football later today, and despite not being 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.920 on my watch tower at the radio station, we still 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:58.040 have Benny Versus the Penny a global audience watching on YouTube. 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.160 We have the Saturday Special. If you just want the 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.960 games that are being played later today, there's two then 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.360 you can check that out. And if you want every 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.479 game as being played tomorrow on the NFL Week seventeen 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.479 schedule and Monday night that ram Falcon game, make sure 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:21.200 to partake and enjoy the fun on Benny Vspenny on YouTube. 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:25.800 So please do that and that content will continue throughout 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.759 the NFL season every week, the playoffs, all the way 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:34.839 through the Super Bowl in northern California. So this podcast 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.000 is going to be a little bit different than most 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.759 of the podcasts that we do. It just is. There's 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:42.880 reason for that. You'll find out here in a minute. 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.000 I wanted to say that I'm very happy that I 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.040 have the podcast. I'm glad that you have a little 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:50.480 bit of a break from the radio show, but I 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:52.960 still have a chance to talk to you and share 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.640 some information. And there's something that I felt was very 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.240 important that I needed to talk to you as a 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.960 member of the militias we like to call our little group. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.560 So we'll get to that in a minute. I've got 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:11.080 the foam cowboy hat double mint gum as well, but 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.760 we'll start with this. It has been said by wise men, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:18.320 people much wiser than I am, that sport is a 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.520 delivery system for stories. That it's a vehicle right that 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.080 we watch the games. It's really about the stories, not 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:30.920 about the stats. It's not about that. I've always believed 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.680 doing talk radio. It's the same thing. It's just with 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:38.840 more bad lighting and fewer expense accounts and less bells 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:43.600 and whistles and razzle dazzle and all that. Every once 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.720 in a while, every now and again, that happened. Very often, 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:53.080 there's someone that will wander into your life from the 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:56.959 middle of the night and will stay just long enough 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.480 to leave a dent in your memory to stand out 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.400 from the crowd. And then that person will disappear back 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.359 into the darkness. You wonder where where did they go? 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.840 Where did they come from? I don't know. So this week, 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:16.920 as I was winding down from a full year of 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.440 doing the show and trying to recharge my batteries and 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:26.160 all that, one of those dents in my memory unfortunately 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.960 became permanent. So before we get to all that, let's 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.120 take the hot Tub time Machine back. I think this 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.760 was twelve years ago. I'm really bad with dates, really 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.360 bad with dates. It could have been fifteen years ago. 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.560 It could have been eight years ago, but it's definitely 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.960 not eight years ago. It's more than that. I think 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.600 it was twelve thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, something like that. Anyway, 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.000 the jets are on full blast on the hot Tub 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:55.120 Time Machine, full blast. The water smells faintly of chlorine. 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.040 There's just a little chlorine there, and there's some other 0:03:58.080 --> 0:03:59.720 stuff I don't know what that is. We'll get that 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.040 clean up in a minute. And on a random day, 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:07.400 long long ago, I received a message from a listener 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:12.520 claiming to be in the state of Colorado. Overnight Radio. 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:14.640 When you do the Overnight show, it's like fishing in 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.600 the ocean at three in the morning. You never really 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.320 know who you're going to reel in. We have a 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.520 diverse audience on the Overnight Show. We have people that 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:29.160 are professors at university, have people that are executives at 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:34.400 major companies, construction companies, people that work as farmers and 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.960 make donuts, and people that are police officers fighting crime 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.040 and criminals that are creating crime. There's a little bit 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:43.320 of this, a little bit of that. A lot of 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.520 you guys work in factories, whether it's the boys in 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:50.000 El Paso or the factories in Ohio and Tennessee and 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.840 Wisconsin and all the other places in the middle part 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:54.680 of the country where you guys work in factories are 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:58.160 up all night. So anyway, this person contacts me, he says, hey, 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:02.599 you know fan of the show, blah blah blah. Competitive eater. Okay, good, 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.600 I like competitive eating, Major League eater. Now, if you 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:10.240 listen to the Ben Maler Show for more than like 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.120 five minutes, and I'm going to assume the position you're 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.200 listening to this podcast, which is a spin off of 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:19.320 the radio show, that you are of the one percent 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.800 of those that get the show, because you actually, unlike radio, 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.680 where you can stumble on to a radio show, you're 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.200 really not stumbling on to the fifth hour parties. You 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.040 have to go out of your way to find the parties. 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.200 And then we do very well, and I'm grateful for that, 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.600 but still it's a lot harder to find a podcast 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.400 than it is the radio show. So anyway, if you've 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:43.000 heard the Overnight Show, you know that I have a deep, 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:48.920 borderline spiritual appreciation for the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.720 I've never been to the event on the fourth of July. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:56.680 I have enjoyed it from afar. Joey Chestnut is right 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:01.160 there on the Mount Rushmore. Competitive eating is a little 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.640 bit of this, a little bit of that. It's performance art, 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:08.279 it's physics, it's human endurance wrapped in nitrates. It's all 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.400 that stuff. And so this listener says, Hey, I would 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.279 like to come to the studio and do a demonstration. 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:14.880 I said, okay. It was in Colorado was gonna come. 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.400 I guess he was coming to LA to do some events, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.520 and I couldn't say yes fast enough. Now, the man's nickname, 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.760 we're gonna call him by his nickname, Big Sexy. How 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.760 great a nickname is that, Big Sexy. That's a great name. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:31.480 It's a solid nickname. So that alone got my attention 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:35.799 and got this gentleman through the velvet rope, the intense 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:39.160 security that we have at Fox Sports Radio. Now, this 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:44.080 guy had competed on Coney Island, right, Darren Brooklyn. He's 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.400 the guy to jog your memory if you're a fan 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.720 of competitive eating like I am. He wore these ridiculous 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:55.400 oversized foam hats, the foam cowboy hat you might remember 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:59.000 from the old highlight clips of competitive eating, the kind 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:03.159 that makes you look like a lego character who wandered 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.800 onto the wrong set. You know, it's just really cool, though, 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.080 that's pretty neat. I know who you are because you're well, 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:10.600 you're a big guy, but you got the heat on 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.280 that see the hat, that's the key. So I immediately 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.760 remembered him. I'm like, oh man, this guy stood shoulder 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:21.840 to shoulder with gladiators of gluttony, a murderer's row of 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.400 human garbage disposals, and he was right in the middle 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.200 of it. And the event he was at was when, 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:31.840 if you remember, Kobyashi crashed, decided to crash the event 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.760 anyway to get him in studio, big sexy scheduling, it 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.880 was a circus. At that time, I was doing the 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:41.880 weekend overnight show. I was not doing the weekday show. 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.480 So this was definitely over ten years and more than 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.440 that now, more than that now. So when you do 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.320 the overnight weekend radio show at the time, it doesn't 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:56.640 work for most people's schedules. It just doesn't. Logistics are 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:02.920 a yeah, human being who needed to be awake at 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:08.280 an hour normally reserved only for raccoons, only for the raccoon. Eventually, 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.400 a little back and forth we locked in a date. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:18.640 And I have done a lot of monologues that a 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.080 lot of radio shows in my life. I'm very fortunate 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.200 I've survived him A bit of zombie these days in radio. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.080 I started at the age of nineteen. Some people going 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.080 to the military. I went into radio. I think they 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.920 treat you better in the military. Most nights blurred together, 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.600 kind of like when you're driving late. You had had 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.000 a lot of sleep, the freeway lights at two in 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:42.680 the morning. You know you know what I'm talking about. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.760 I know you're nodding your head. So this one didn't. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.400 This night was different than most other nights. It was special. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.680 Big Sexy arrived, but he didn't just arrive, because when 0:08:54.679 --> 0:09:01.880 you're named Big Sexy, you don't just arrive in style 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:06.800 with the razzle, dazzle, with a posse, like a professional boxer. 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.719 Although this was not hype men, it was medical men, 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:16.640 an ambulance. Big Sexy arrived with not one, but two EMTs. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:22.160 Now this was not a bit, this was controlled demolition, 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:30.439 just in case someone choked on a wiener, which I 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.080 did not anticipate I would be using on this podcast. 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.520 But yet here we are. So yeah, they were eating 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:40.160 hot dogs. Now, on one side he had Big Sexy, 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:44.640 professional eater, friend of the Ben Mather Show, built like 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.720 a large fire hydrant, just a big man lifting weights, 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.360 the whole thing in my head. On the other hand, 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.920 we had on the other side, we had my boardop 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.360 at the time, Jeff Deray was his name. I don't 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.880 know what ever happened to Jeffy. We lost contact. Jeff 0:09:59.920 --> 0:10:03.120 was my engineer for a while, Emerson College, Boston, guy 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.920 nice Man, whose only crime was agreeing to participate in 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:11.640 a cheesy overnight radio bit. Now observing was my producer, 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.440 Miss Pink Headphones herself, the great Miranda, who's gone on 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.360 to a lovely life. She's a big executive at the company. 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.960 She's got kids living the dream. So my job, I 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.520 didn't enter the contest. I did play by play. I 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.200 did it like my hair was on fire. If I 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:36.119 had hair, I was Dick Stockton, Al Michaels, Brent Musburger, 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:40.600 you're listening live, Kevin Harlan, and the late great Brian 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:45.520 Wheeler yelling Boom Shaka Laca from the heavens Now. Jeff 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.160 my boardop made it through about half a hot dog, 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:52.440 about half a hot dog. He then waved the white flag. 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:56.320 He tossed in the sponge, the bun one, the bon one. 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.920 So we both then sat back and watched this brief 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:05.839 eating contest as Big Sexy flexed. He did a pirouette 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.520 on the catwalk. He walked around like a peak cock 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:12.959 with his feathers in the air. Everywhere, one hot dog, 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.640 one sausage at a time, hot dog and bun no flourish, 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:22.480 no showboating during the contest, just dominance, pure dominance. Now 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.040 in my memory, you, memories are funny things. Memories can 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.240 be very hazy. In my memory, my boardop Jeff de 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:33.160 Ray ate half a hot dog and this gentleman, Big 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:37.679 Sexy about seventy seven hot dogs or something like that. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.120 Give her a take. You know, it was like watching 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.760 Tom Brady throw a football, Michael Jordan rise over a 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.440 defender with the Chicago Bulls to knock down a jumper, 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.640 or right now, show Hal Tani hitting a baseball that 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.640 violates these zoning laws in many parts of town. So 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:58.760 you stop breathing. You stared, You were hypnotized and mesmerized 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.600 by what you were seeing. And here's the part that 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.439 always stuck with me. Big Sexy loved radio. He loved 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.760 our show, which obviously made me feel good good for 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.560 my ego. But he loved the show so much, and 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.200 he wanted to be part of this bit so much 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:18.560 he actually slept in his car that night in the 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:22.120 parking lot at the radio station. He slept in his car. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.480 It was too late for a hotel, too expensive. Maybe 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.520 he just didn't want to waste the money. I don't know. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.600 But for that night he was homeless because he wanted 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.480 to be on the radio show and do an eating contest. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:37.720 That is dedication, all right, that's dedication. That doesn't show 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:42.040 up on stat sheets. Now, over the years, he would 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:46.840 check in life updates, you know, maybe complaint about the Rockies. 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:51.480 There's so much to complain about the Broncos at that time. Misery. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.280 They've only gotten good now, like the last couple of years, 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.680 they've been a competitive team. But for years the Broncos 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:00.160 after Peyton Manning left, they sucked the Nuggets. Who of 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.280 course that's the hope. They won the championship. I don't 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:03.800 think you ever talked about the avalanche. Maybe he did, 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:05.600 I don't know, not on our show. We don't really 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.839 talk much hockey, you know, the usual. So he was 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.840 a member of Big Sexuy, the Mallard militia in the 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.400 purest sense, someone who listened when most of the world 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.280 was asleep, most of the world not there and you know, 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.280 kind of drooling new a pillow, doing whatever you're doing. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:24.520 And this week during the holiday, I don't want to 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:28.280 say malaise is that's not the right word. Just the 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:33.400 holiday reset and I got a Facebook message randomly out 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.000 of the blue, and I don't normally check these things. 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.720 I'm bad about it, I admit. And this message was 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:45.920 from Big Sexy's mom, a woman named Shelley, and it 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:53.840 wasn't good. It wasn't And I've gotten a few of 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:59.320 these messages over the years, and they hit you like 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:05.400 a old splash of reality, and it's like you look 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.800 at them, you're like, well, maybe this is somebody doing 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.200 some kind of ghoulish humor or something like that. Maybe 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:14.040 it's not real, you know, maybe it's it's just somebody 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.640 doing a sick joke or something like that. And now 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:21.560 Brian Beard, Brian Beard, better known to the Malain Militia's 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:27.560 Big Sexy. His government named Brian Beard, his mom named him. 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:36.200 That passed away December twenty first heart attack. It's forty 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:41.360 years old. That's it. Forty. You can do the math. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.040 I don't need to do the math. It doesn't add up, 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:48.360 doesn't make sense, the math ain't mathing. It just that 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:53.920 shouldn't happen. Told there were no warning signs. He was smiling, 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.400 watching some comedy shows with his dear old mom there, 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:07.160 enjoying life. And then that's all. Now, I was able 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.840 to talk to his mother, who reached out. I do 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:14.280 thank Shelley a lot for letting me know. And she 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:15.840 had said that he was a big fan of the 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:20.240 show and had fond memories of hanging out with us 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.960 at the radio station. Things like that. So very kind, 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.360 loving woman. We had a brief conversation on the phone. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.000 I learned some new things about Brian, or as we 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.720 know him, Big Sexy. Things. I didn't know Big Sexy 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.880 as a little boy was a ball boy for the 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.520 Denver Nuggets as a kid. His mom worked at the arena. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.480 She knew some people, and she was able to, you know, 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:44.440 talk to somebody, and she knew who to talk to. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:46.720 I don't know how all that stuff works, but her 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:48.560 son was able to be a ball boy. How great 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:53.400 is that? And but wait, there's more. He'd befriended Rocky 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.840 the mascot. Now on I side, not hit the pause, 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.200 but on the side note if you've never watched Rocky 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.880 pass out while being lowered from the rafters as a cheerleader. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.960 Sugar took us and kept smiling like nothing happened. That 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:12.440 video is Internet immortality from Rocky. Looked like Rocky had 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.680 kicked the bucket as he was coming down from the 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.160 rafters in the Mile High City and the cheerleaders are 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:21.520 all dancing. It was wild back to the store here. 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:25.440 So Brian, who again knew him as Big Sexy, he 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:29.360 ended up actually working locally in Denver's Sports radio. He 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:33.480 got to live his dream. He loved radio, and unfortunately 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:37.120 he learned the dark side of radio, the reality financially 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.440 that you're better off working the fry machine at McDonald's 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.360 or making egg mcmuffins at McDonald's if you want to 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:47.640 make any money. And despite it all from what I 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.840 heard from from Brian's mom, and I kept his love 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.440 of sports and all that. And recently, and this is 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.760 the part that still makes me smile, a few days 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.360 after all this I learned of this information is that 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:07.760 Brian Big Sexy became a Nuggets cheerleader. Let me say 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.760 that part again slowly for those of you who are 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.920 doing the Honeydeo list or not paying close attention because 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.520 you're distracted by some video game or driving. So I'm 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:21.520 gonna repeat that part. Big Sexy, large and in charge, 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.800 our friend member of the Malain Militia, was dancing on 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:30.960 the court during timeouts while mister MVP Nikola Jokicic drank Gatorade. 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.600 Now that is a life well lift. That's what I say. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.720 Should have been much longer. But man, he was doing well. 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.320 He was doing well. He was a founding member of 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.040 his Mom told me the inside skinny on this, Brian 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:48.440 Big Sexy, a founding member of the Nuggets. Average Joe's dancers. 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:52.120 Just a bunch of regular dudes, beer bellies, regular looking dudes, 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.239 dancing like nobody was watching. Except everyone was watching. There 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.480 were eighteen thousand people in the arena and they were 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:05.080 watching you dance around. In fact, Brian, he did this 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:07.840 for a while. He performed at the NBA All Star 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:15.639 Game in Indianapolis. Hello, made surprise appearances. Mom told me, 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.080 with Rocky there was a famous backward half court shot 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:24.600 playoff hijinks. It sounds like just pure joy. That's how 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:26.639 much fun. You grow up a kid in Denver. You 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.359 like all the Denver teams. You get to be a 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.520 ball boy for the Nuggets, You become a dancer. You're 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.000 doing bits with Rocky, the iconic mascot. That's pretty cool. 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:39.639 That's all cool stuff. And Brian loved all the Colorado teams. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.040 From what I understand obviously the Rockies. I think he 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.800 liked more, which is not good because they sucked. But 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:50.840 he collected hats like trophies and size eight. That's my size. 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:52.159 I don't know what his size was. I don't know 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:54.479 he had a big head too, he probably had. I 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.960 bet you had a size hat like me. We're hat guys. 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.520 The point is we're hat guys. Hat guy, wrecking hat 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:05.880 guy kinship united by fitted caps and stubborn optimism, if 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.040 you will, And there is I want to stop right there, 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.560 because there is a fraternity big sexy, big guy. When 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:14.760 you're a big guy, there's a bit of a brotherhood. 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:18.560 You learn early how the world looks at you a 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:23.320 little different. There's that sideways look when you're a big dude. 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.640 The whisper some mean things and make some jokes at 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:30.240 your expense. Women especially can be very cold blooded assassins 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:34.440 with the big dudes. Yeah. So, from what I can tell, though, 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:39.320 Brian by all accounts, handled all of the pitfalls of 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:43.360 that with humor. Seemed like a very warm guy when 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:46.280 I met him. He was great, a big personality that 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:51.960 filled the room before his body ever did. And it 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:53.639 was I think it was doctor Seuss. I don't know. 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:55.600 I think all quotes are doctor Seuss, who once said, 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.800 sometimes you will never know the value of a single 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:04.600 moment until it becomes memory. And that sat with me 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.840 this week as I was thinking and driving around running 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.359 errands for different things we've got going on with the 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.840 holidays and all that, and Brian was one of those 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.480 moments for me. He wasn't and from what his mom said, 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:18.960 it was a big thing for him too, and that's 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:21.760 really cool and all that. It was a It's a 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.840 story that I'll I'll tell forever. Someday I might write 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:27.639 a book. I've been talking to some people about that. 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:31.200 I had something in the works last year, didn't didn't 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.320 pan out. Maybe we'll do that again, and I'll definitely 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:38.480 have to include the story of meeting Brian and the 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:41.320 eating contest and one of those zanier things that we've done. 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.720 And it is proof that you never know who's listening. 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:49.000 You know, it's really the magic. Radio's theater of the mind. 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:53.080 And you go out, you got the bullhorn, the mega megaphone, 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:58.000 you're just yapping away. And I point out that radio 0:20:58.040 --> 0:20:59.720 at night just matters a little more so a little 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:01.640 differ at night than it is. During the day. People 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:03.600 are working, they've got stuff going on during the d 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:05.520 At night, most people, even if you're working, it just 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:08.560 means more you by yourself. It's not a lot going on. 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:13.120 And as I tell this story and I reminisce about 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:16.439 the life and times of our friend Big Sexy, I 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:18.920 did want to mention that his family has set up 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:24.679 a GoFundMe page to help with the burial funeral expenses. 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:29.960 Brian wasn't rich, he wasn't his guy was hustling, he 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:34.560 was working multiple jobs. And none of us, none of 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:38.320 us plan on checking out at that age, at age forty. 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:41.479 So if you've got a few bucks, I hate doing 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:42.720 this kind of stuff. But if you got a few 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:44.600 bucks and you want to do a good mitzvah, and 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:46.919 you don't have to don't tell anyone about it. You 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:49.080 know my rant about that, you just do it, and 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:52.320 you want to help send Big Sexy out the right way, 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:57.359 give him a nice, a nice goodbye. The link will 0:21:57.400 --> 0:22:00.400 be and should be there right now the podcast description, 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:05.679 and my hope that somewhere right now across the Pearly Gates, 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:08.320 Big Sexy is. It's been in a few I know it's 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:10.200 probably got family there and all that, but he's catching 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:12.840 up with the other mal and Millish legends. He's probably 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:15.560 hanging out with Parker the snow Dog right now, Parker 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:20.960 the mascot, the official mascot, but one of the characters 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:24.800 with the Denver Broncos hanging out side by side there 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:28.280 and the Great Beyond and the Boston Hater, probably telling 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:31.240 stories about how he's so happy the Bruins and the 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:33.040 Celtics aren't going to win the championship this year. That 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:35.200 Genie and Medford off to the side. There are friend 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:39.479 Jeanie having some drinks, Jimmy Ray from Tampa Bay, Rachel 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:43.480 and Montabello, the Great Masshole, Mickey Rick in Boston we 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:48.440 lost years ago, John Slash Captain, Jack Namo, big fan 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:51.680 of the show, Matt the Warrior Raider A's fan, and 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:56.760 Tom Brady roast fan, and so many more. So rest 0:22:56.800 --> 0:23:00.520 in peace to Brian Beard for us Big Sexy, and 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:05.320 I say Big Sexy forever. We will miss getting those updates. 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:06.639 He would check in every once in a while and 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:08.640 give us updates on what was going on in his life. 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:15.240 So rest in peace there to Brian. All right, there's 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:18.359 no really good transition. So you know, what the hell, 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:22.160 We'll just pause and we'll turn the page. I did 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:25.119 want to mention this. Several of you emailed me a 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:28.080 version of this story from different sources and wanted me 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:31.480 to rant about it. I will do that here, and 0:23:31.560 --> 0:23:33.240 I will do this as quickly as I can. So 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:36.679 the NBA, if you didn't see this, is exploring some 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:41.760 new changes to try to curb tanking. Now. They have 0:23:41.960 --> 0:23:45.080 done stuff over the years that have absolutely failed to 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:48.680 deter teams from deliberately losing games to improve their draft 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:51.840 lottery odds. So the league had presented a bunch of 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:55.160 other rule changes during a Board of Governor's meetings, which 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:58.919 included doing what baseball does, you limit how often you 0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:01.560 can draft in the top for of the NBA draft, 0:24:01.560 --> 0:24:03.879 And they were trying to get input from team owners 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:06.240 and general managers, which I always thought is funny because 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:08.000 these are the people that are doing it. The owners 0:24:08.000 --> 0:24:11.359 of the general managers. You're asking them for input the 0:24:11.440 --> 0:24:13.960 owners like as a board of governors and the owners, 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:17.200