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Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller and Danny g
Speaker 3: Radio A Happy Saturday to you.
Speaker 1: It's the twenty second day of March.
Speaker 3: We're hanging out here early on a Saturday morning, and
Speaker 3: normally we start out with some dope holiday and kind
Speaker 3: of start yapping about that, but I think we should
Speaker 3: start with the loss of a legend an icon, Danny.
Speaker 3: We learned last night that George Foreman has gone by
Speaker 3: behind the Pearly Gates, one of the great boxing stories
Speaker 3: from back when we were younger, and a lot of
Speaker 3: people it reminds me of she was like seventy six,
Speaker 3: but it reminds me of the John Madden thing, where
Speaker 3: there's people that thought John Madden was just a video game.
Speaker 1: There's people that think George Foreman.
Speaker 3: Was just like a grill that you get at Target,
Speaker 3: Balmart or something like that. But he was a big
Speaker 3: time boxer for many, many years back in the day.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 5: Not only was he a legendary boxer, but you're right,
Speaker 5: his business acumen was on point. He got a grill,
Speaker 5: and as the story goes, hul Cogan, what did he get,
Speaker 5: like a blender or something like that that sucked.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the famous story Hulk Hogan. They supposedly contacted hul Cogan. First,
Speaker 3: there's a couple of different versions of the story. One
Speaker 3: of them was they called hull Cogan, he didn't answer
Speaker 3: his phone because he was picking up his kids or
Speaker 3: something like that. And then there's another version where they said,
Speaker 3: all right, you can either do the grill or you
Speaker 3: can do like a meatball maker, and he he chose
Speaker 3: the meatball maker, the whole Comania meatball maker which never which.
Speaker 1: Never made it.
Speaker 3: And then they called George Foreman up, and Foreman's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: but Foreman had done a lot of commercials, like he
Speaker 3: was a as you mentioned, he was a big time
Speaker 3: sales guy.
Speaker 1: He was in a lot of different crap back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was a great hitch Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he did a lot of like McDonald's, and he
Speaker 3: used to point at the camera. Yeah, he had that
Speaker 3: infectious smile too. And did he name all his kids
Speaker 3: George and what.
Speaker 4: He sure did? Yeah, George one through fourteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah he had. He had a lot of kids.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure how many, but yeah, they were all numbered.
Speaker 1: There were a lot.
Speaker 3: No it was I don't think it was fourteen. But
Speaker 3: he definitely enjoyed himself. And then he ended up making
Speaker 3: because of that George Foreman grill. He ended up making
Speaker 3: hundreds of millions of dollars. I think I remember the
Speaker 3: story in the late nineties he wrote over the use
Speaker 3: of his name, and at the time, I think it
Speaker 3: was like one hundred and thirty something million dollars that
Speaker 3: George Foreman got.
Speaker 1: In fact, you do a little type here this sake.
Speaker 1: No no no, no, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 5: I actually somewhere in the garage, I have a deluxe
Speaker 5: George Foreman grill.
Speaker 1: Oh not just the basic bitch.
Speaker 3: You've you've gone above and beyond, all right, so it
Speaker 3: says here, Yeah, Foreman got one hundred and thirty seven
Speaker 3: million dollars in nineteen ninety nine, he got. So let's
Speaker 3: do some malar math on that. Let's see, so I'll
Speaker 3: basically hold on sic. So if inflation since nineteen ninety nine, uh,
Speaker 3: it's gone up ninety one percent essentially, so uh it
Speaker 3: was one hundred and thirty seven it's like or two
Speaker 3: point six million in today's dollars.
Speaker 1: He got.
Speaker 3: Now, is that is that Foreman grill you have still
Speaker 3: in the box, Danny? Or is that is that game used?
Speaker 5: It's still in the box, but it's light used. When
Speaker 5: I lived alone, I made a lot of turkey burgers
Speaker 5: with it.
Speaker 1: Okay, that was your go to back in the day.
Speaker 5: I burned out the original and I remember finding that
Speaker 5: bigger George Foreman grill the top like pivots pivot Hey,
Speaker 5: those were great because remember they drained the grease out
Speaker 5: into the grease catcher.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the guy that actually invented him. I was
Speaker 1: reading a story about it.
Speaker 3: Last night when we found out that George Foreman had died.
Speaker 3: And the guy that actually came up with it was
Speaker 3: this guy named Michael Baum.
Speaker 1: I believe was his name A b O.
Speaker 3: E Hm, I'm not trying to pronounce that, but he
Speaker 3: was the creator of it and he was just like
Speaker 3: a gadget guy. But he didn't get any kind of
Speaker 3: money out of it compared to what George Foreman got
Speaker 3: out of it. But he this guy would just futs
Speaker 3: around with like lawnmowers and snowmobiles and all that stuff,
Speaker 3: and he's the guy that actually created the product, and
Speaker 3: then George.
Speaker 1: Foreman ended up taking it to the new level.
Speaker 3: The other thing that I learned about that Danny, which
Speaker 3: is great, is this is a testimonial now that we've
Speaker 3: lost George Foreman. Though it's a testimonial to the power
Speaker 3: of the infomercial because according to what I was reading,
Speaker 3: the Foreman Grill when it came out was not really selling.
Speaker 3: It wasn't all that popular when they first debuted back
Speaker 3: in the day. And what had happened was Foreman popped
Speaker 3: up on QVC.
Speaker 1: I think that's still around. It was a.
Speaker 5: Shopping QVC still there. You could make like five payments
Speaker 5: for an item.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, So early on people were on buying the
Speaker 3: Foreman Grill. And then Foreman made his first appearance on
Speaker 3: television on the Shopping that We're QBC and just did
Speaker 3: the pitch and all that, and he's.
Speaker 5: So perfect for that with his smile, and all the
Speaker 5: old ladies watching around the country.
Speaker 3: They say the aha moment was they actually used the
Speaker 3: grill on the TV show and the hosts were mosing
Speaker 3: with each other and then Foreman just grabbed. At one
Speaker 3: point he picked up the burger and ate it. I
Speaker 3: rotate nuts right out. Yeah, as it was, We've been
Speaker 3: made and that apparently lit up the phone lines and
Speaker 3: people could not get enough of them ever since then.
Speaker 5: So there's actually an indoor outdoor electric grill by Foreman.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, there's there's all nonstick grill griddle and it's
Speaker 5: on a stand.
Speaker 1: Oh is that right? Okay, that's like the next generation.
Speaker 5: That's a next yeah exactly. Yeah, that's cool though. I
Speaker 5: want one of those from my patio.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: You remember the original name was the Lean Mean Fat
Speaker 3: Reducing Grilling Machine.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, it was came in that white box I remember.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the George Foreman Lean Mean, Lean Mean Fat Reduced
Speaker 3: seeing Grilling Machine, and they just shortened it to the
Speaker 3: George Foreman Grill. It's estimated not here, it's dead. He
Speaker 3: made over five hundred million dollars off that grill. Oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, five hundred million and hal Cogan maybe sold
Speaker 3: like seven meatball makers, but does you know, maybe a
Speaker 3: blender or something.
Speaker 1: But five hundred million off that grill? God, how about that? Wow?
Speaker 4: Wow? That crazy? Yeah.
Speaker 3: And you know, George, I don't know what did him
Speaker 3: in George at age seventy six. But how about the
Speaker 3: fact Don King is still kicking at ninety three and
Speaker 3: we lost George here at seventy six. But Don King
Speaker 3: still out there doing his thing and these as far
Speaker 3: as I know, he's in decent. Hell, he lived in
Speaker 3: Florida and all that. But yeah, George Foreman, rest in peace.
Speaker 3: One of the great characters back when boxing matted right.
Speaker 1: Just was a big deal.
Speaker 3: And he was in some massive five We're mostly talking
Speaker 3: about the Grill because you know, it's the grill, but
Speaker 3: there were some amazing moments there. And he fought Joe
Speaker 3: Frazier in the Fight of the Century in nineteen seventy one,
Speaker 3: and it was also he was the guy who fought
Speaker 3: Muhammad Ali.
Speaker 1: And you know, a.
Speaker 3: Bunch of these guys back in the day, so two
Speaker 3: of the most iconic boxing events of all time. Joe
Speaker 3: Frazier in the Fight of the Century and then Muhammad
Speaker 3: Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle. Has there been
Speaker 3: a better name for a fight than the Rumble in
Speaker 3: the Jungle? That has got to be top top five,
Speaker 3: top three, top two all time boxing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And this was years before Tom Brady and some
Speaker 5: older players, other older players who were still starring on
Speaker 5: the field. I remember my grandmother pointing at him out
Speaker 5: all the time, saying, see, just because you're old, doesn't
Speaker 5: mean your life's over. He was kind of known as
Speaker 5: the old guy that could still do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember when he came back.
Speaker 3: I was just starting my bloviating career and people were like, oh,
Speaker 3: he mean, he's been out of boxing for too long
Speaker 3: form and he's not gonna be able to come back.
Speaker 3: He sat out like ten years and then came back
Speaker 3: and became the heavyweight championship. A toss up question. Toss
Speaker 3: up question, Danny g better fight name the Rumble in
Speaker 3: the or the Thrilla in Manila, But that those gotta
Speaker 3: be the top two, right, have to be the top.
Speaker 5: Ah Thrilla in Manila. Just I could see the poster
Speaker 5: in my mind.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: But Rumble in the Jungle, you know, it's like the
Speaker 3: Jim Rome Show from nineteen ninety.
Speaker 4: That one sounds racist.
Speaker 1: Racist.
Speaker 5: Back then, you could get away with that.
Speaker 3: Back when was that nineteen seventy four or whatever that
Speaker 3: fight was back in the day.
Speaker 5: Man rip Man definitely a huge, huge legend there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I did chat with mister Foreman a few times my
Speaker 3: back in my younger days when I'd go to Vegas
Speaker 3: for fights or whatever, back when boxing was still big,
Speaker 3: and they'd fly everyone in and it was like a
Speaker 3: big spectacle and they'd bring it back all the boxing
Speaker 3: legend would be a wandering around and all that, and
Speaker 3: so I do. I did run into Forman a few
Speaker 3: times back in the day, and very nice man. Not
Speaker 3: quite the same impact on me as Don King, though,
Speaker 3: And I've told the Don King story many times. The
Speaker 3: boxing promoter, well I remember that story. Yeah, he just
Speaker 3: butted my biscuits.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: I thought I was the greatest thing in the world
Speaker 3: and he just couldn't say enough things about me. And
Speaker 3: then he walked over to the next booth and said
Speaker 3: the same exact thing about the other gas. So it's like, okay,
Speaker 3: on this fifth hour podcast we have well, we just
Speaker 3: did the whole tribute to the grill Master, George Former.
Speaker 3: We got the Merry Go Round, the Catered Affair, pulls
Speaker 3: cats and kittens, and we'll see what else we have
Speaker 3: time for, but we'll start with the Merry Go Round.
Speaker 3: And did not have the live radio show overnight into
Speaker 3: Saturday morning here because it's a day of rest other
Speaker 3: than this podcast, So we missed out. I missed out
Speaker 3: on a great, great Merry Go Round, just a wonderful
Speaker 3: merry go round of quarterbacks, just wonderful and quarter and
Speaker 3: then nothing really happened other than Jameis Winston going to
Speaker 3: the Giants. And I'm a big Jameis Winston fan. Do
Speaker 3: I think Jameis Winston's good?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Do I like Jameis Winston.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's thirty one, he's He's what I've said you
Speaker 3: want to have. If you're a team like the Giants,
Speaker 3: you want at least fun bad. You don't want bad bad,
Speaker 3: you want fun bad. He's f b He's fun bad.
Speaker 3: Jameis won.
Speaker 5: He doesn't want a guy that's going to tease you
Speaker 5: all the way to the start of the fourth quarter
Speaker 5: before he throws two back breaking interceptions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he'll throw his two pick sixes at some moment
Speaker 3: and break your heart, but they'll be games. Jameis Wins
Speaker 3: is a one man band. He'll have some games where
Speaker 3: he throws five touchdown passes. He'll have some games where
Speaker 3: he throws five interceptions.
Speaker 1: Now, it doesn't.
Speaker 3: Guarantee just because he's signed with the Giants obviously does
Speaker 3: not guarantee that they're not gonna go out. And that's
Speaker 3: some other other quarterback. And the big story from yesterday
Speaker 3: was Aaron Rogers actually visiting western Pennsylvania, breaking the silence.
Speaker 3: Rogers leaving the beaches of Malibu to go hang out
Speaker 3: at the confluence there in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, supposedly he had thumbed his nose at Pittsburgh, but
Speaker 5: then the Vikings told him not interesting, and suddenly he's
Speaker 5: on a plane over to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he met with some of the big shots
Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh. The I read it was a six hour situation.
Speaker 3: What do they talk about for six hours? They have
Speaker 3: lunch for that lunch is about thirty five mine?
Speaker 5: Right, when you did like a radio interview in your
Speaker 5: early years, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well could that go one hour? Two hours at the most?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Normally what would happen is you'd meet with the program director,
Speaker 3: they'd walk you around the station, to show you the station,
Speaker 3: and then you'd meet with them for whatever and that
Speaker 3: was it. Or maybe you'd go to lunch with them
Speaker 3: and then you wouldn't even see the station and that's that,
Speaker 3: you know. Ben I had one program director. He brought
Speaker 3: me to his house after the lunch because he had
Speaker 3: to pick something up. And then he was like in
Speaker 3: there forever and he came back out at his front
Speaker 3: door and he said, come on in for a little bit.
Speaker 3: His wife was in there, and maybe early twenties, he
Speaker 3: was a young program director.
Speaker 4: They were in there smoking weed.
Speaker 1: Smoke weedy day, just chilling man, just having a good time.
Speaker 4: And I was like, man, this, uh, this interview is
Speaker 4: going to go.
Speaker 1: Long app after he is done. But yeah, there was a.
Speaker 4: That would have been Kooper Op's dream job.
Speaker 3: God, he'd be like the assistant PD if he worked there.
Speaker 1: But I remember the Uh.
Speaker 3: There was one station I worked at my early days
Speaker 3: before Fox Sports Radio, and in the afternoon, the program
Speaker 3: director interviewed a guy who was on television in LA
Speaker 3: for a job while the host was on the air
Speaker 3: down the hall, like interviewed his replacement to take his
Speaker 3: job while he was in the building.
Speaker 4: That was very ouch.
Speaker 3: He would have gotten away with it, but somebody spotted
Speaker 3: the guy who he was interviewing and put you know,
Speaker 3: two and two together and realized what are we doing here?
Speaker 3: So yeah, Rogers, I mean that would have been a
Speaker 3: great monologue.
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll see. He hasn't signed yet, so we'll
Speaker 1: see if he's signs.
Speaker 3: You got to think he wants to play that it
Speaker 3: makes a lot of sense. Played season number twenty one
Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh and they say that.
Speaker 1: Yeah deal.
Speaker 5: I was going to say, just to back up to
Speaker 5: the Giants. You're right, they're going to draft a young quarterback.
Speaker 5: So whether or not that young quarterback is ready to
Speaker 5: play or not, Jamis is a really good commodity to
Speaker 5: have as your backup.
Speaker 4: If that's how it's going to roll.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like Jamis will be great and the New
Speaker 3: York media will embrace him and he'll be wonderful for
Speaker 3: the tabloids.
Speaker 4: And oh yeah, you saw him at the super Bowl
Speaker 4: with that microphone.
Speaker 1: And another win for Sequon Barkley.
Speaker 3: Remember Barkley at the Super Bowl at that opening night,
Speaker 3: which used to be Media Day before it was bastardized
Speaker 3: by the NFL. They Barkley asked or James Winston asked
Speaker 3: Barkley where he should go, and Barkley said, yeah, or
Speaker 3: so he was a Southsayer even before winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: And I you mentioned the Viking's not interested in Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3: Did you see they had discussions with Ryan Tannehill. I
Speaker 3: thought he was tired. I didn't even realize.
Speaker 5: Oh, I thought that that was an old post from
Speaker 5: Jordan Schultz from three years ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what is that, Ryan Tannehill? I mean, you go
Speaker 3: down to the cemetery and dig his ass up. My god,
Speaker 3: Ryan tanne are you kidding me? Ryan Tannehill is the guy.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? I mean, it's very bizarre.
Speaker 3: It's like, well, George, the Vikings are like, well, JJ
Speaker 3: McCarthy's a guy.
Speaker 5: But then yeah, well that's why they don't want an
Speaker 5: enigma like Rogers sucking all the air out of that
Speaker 5: stadium there in Minnesota. They'd rather have, like, you know,
Speaker 5: somebody steady and maybe reliable. That's not Santa Hill, but
Speaker 5: somebody just like a steady Joe Flacco type backup for
Speaker 5: a young McCarthy.
Speaker 1: Hey, well, Joe Flacco's available if you want.
Speaker 3: And there was a rumor one of our listeners in
Speaker 3: Minnesota emailed me a story from some Viking website fan
Speaker 3: website I've never heard of that claimed, oh the Chargers justin.
Speaker 5: Herbert Supply the deal was done according to two sources.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know about that one. Methinks probably not.
Speaker 3: Methinks unlikely.
Speaker 1: The deal was if.
Speaker 5: As somebody who like anonymously emailed into that Vikings show.
Speaker 3: Oh well, those are always good clickbait. Hey, you know,
Speaker 3: every once in a while, they're right, right, every once
Speaker 3: in a while, the right. There was a guy the
Speaker 3: other day this week who was on a flight to
Speaker 3: Boston and said, Hey, Stefan Diggs is on my flight.
Speaker 3: He's going to New England to meet with the Patriots.
Speaker 3: And the Internet was like, oh, yeah, you're full of crap,
Speaker 3: what a loser, you're trying to get cloud. And then
Speaker 3: like two hours later it was yeah, Stefan Diggs is
Speaker 3: going to meet with the Patriots.
Speaker 1: You know. So I really do get that.
Speaker 3: Stuff right every now and again, but I would be
Speaker 3: be surprised. However, we know Jim Harbaugh, a Michigan man,
Speaker 3: loved loved him some JJ McCarthy, and it's not outrageous
Speaker 3: to think that the Harbor after spending a year coaching
Speaker 3: Justin Herbert might think this guy is like more of
Speaker 3: a surfer than a quarterback, and that maybe I should
Speaker 3: go get my guy who I know and J J.
Speaker 1: McCarthy.
Speaker 3: It would be fun. Do I think it's going to happen. No,
Speaker 3: but it's fun to think about. Those kinds of things
Speaker 3: are kind of cool to toss about. But turning the
Speaker 3: page on that, I didn't want to mention. You know,
Speaker 3: this is the Saturday Pod Life of Malar, Life of
Speaker 3: Danny g. So we had a small shindig last weekend,
Speaker 3: small shindig family, family, no friends, just family and a
Speaker 3: good little get together at Malor Mansion. Good to see
Speaker 3: people hadn't seen in some times. Some people hadn't seen
Speaker 3: in many many months. And uh and it was a
Speaker 3: catered affair and what catering company did? We use craft
Speaker 3: services the same as the movie studio, though we use
Speaker 3: the Malar craft services. The menu cheese, steak, and the
Speaker 3: I was a lie cook. I was a line cook
Speaker 3: that it made the food for a lot of people,
Speaker 3: and I had my I was enjoying it because I
Speaker 3: didn't have to socialize because I was on the griddle
Speaker 3: so I just worked the griddle and uh, and the
Speaker 3: people did come out try to talk to me. I
Speaker 3: think they wanted bigger portions of food. That's why they
Speaker 3: came out to talk to me.
Speaker 1: And what are you? What are you making? What's going on?
Speaker 3: But that I felt a little bit like this guy
Speaker 3: named blind Willy. Remember blind Willie called from Florida.
Speaker 5: Oh, I do remember Brian blind Willy. He used to
Speaker 5: call Klay Travis's show too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know what happened to blind Willy.
Speaker 5: But I want to say, unfortunately, he's probably not with us.
Speaker 1: You think blind Willy's checked out whom.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was older back when he used to call.
Speaker 5: That was right before COVID, So yeah, I don't know
Speaker 5: what happened.
Speaker 1: But he I think he worked at like an Applebee's
Speaker 1: or something like that.
Speaker 3: It was some restaurant and he was We always thought
Speaker 3: it was funny because he's a cook and he couldn't see,
Speaker 3: you know, he was liked he was legally blind, and
Speaker 3: he he would make food for people. But I felt
Speaker 3: like blind Willy. It was a busy, busy night, mission accomplished.
Speaker 3: Everyone seemed to eat, drink and be merry. So we
Speaker 3: did that.
Speaker 5: I picture you looking like that cook on You can't
Speaker 5: say that on television.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a little dice. The thing.
Speaker 3: The thing about this Danny that I've noticed is that
Speaker 3: my wife thinks it's like we're at a steakhouse and
Speaker 3: everyone's gonna eat at the same time, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I gotta you know, I.
Speaker 1: Gotta put everything together.
Speaker 3: You know, I got a whole there's a whole routine,
Speaker 3: and I try to get the food out as quick
Speaker 3: as I can't.
Speaker 1: But I'm not I'm one person, you know, So everyone's
Speaker 1: gonna eat at the same time, you know that whole reule.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, no eat when the food comes out,
Speaker 1: they can eat.
Speaker 5: In reality, You're right, people eat at all different times.
Speaker 5: So there needs to be a tip jar in front
Speaker 5: of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, or hire another chef or something like that, and
Speaker 3: you can work with magic there.
Speaker 1: My goodness. So that was part of the weekend. Last weekend, just.
Speaker 3: Kind of hanging out and had a had a fine
Speaker 3: time chilling. And of course the last couple of days
Speaker 3: is watching a lot of the college basketball and I'm trying.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to focus, Danny. I am, I mean, these
Speaker 3: are some tough watches. These are just a lot of
Speaker 3: tough games. You know, a couple of g.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, forty point blowouts are no fun.
Speaker 3: They do generally make for a better tournament down the line.
Speaker 3: They make for a better tournament down the line, but
Speaker 3: it's painful. It's a lot of mislayups, a lot of
Speaker 3: missed wide open shots and.
Speaker 5: Well, you know that mcnee's game a few days back, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that wound up being a lot of fun because they
Speaker 5: had to hold on and just watching the team celebrate
Speaker 5: and the coach jumping up and down on the court.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean you see some of these games, like the
Speaker 3: coaches come out and they're just like, oh man, we're terrible.
Speaker 3: You know, I do I do enjoy And I said
Speaker 3: this the other day when I was filling in on
Speaker 3: the locally in LA. I enjoy Mick Cronin like I
Speaker 3: I don't know that we appreciate the UCLA coach because
Speaker 3: he's it's kind of a straight shooter as much as
Speaker 3: you can be. Like and they early on they were
Speaker 3: get UCLA on Thursday was getting smoked by a Utah
Speaker 3: State or they were it was just no, they weren't
Speaker 3: playing very well.
Speaker 1: And Mick Cronin.
Speaker 3: You know, somebody had kicked his kitten or something like that,
Speaker 3: and then and they.
Speaker 1: Had one of my thirty points.
Speaker 3: Anyway, so I'm worried Cronin's gonna leave. I think I
Speaker 3: think he's gonna go somewhere else, But who knows. Then
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens this weekend and later today. Right,
Speaker 3: we've got Rick Patino and John Calipari. That'll be a
Speaker 3: game to circle right college basketball today And I watched that.
Speaker 1: That'll be a that'll be a fun one.
Speaker 3: And maybe you can go hang out with some cats
Speaker 3: and some kittens and just kind of hang out and
Speaker 3: watch the game.
Speaker 1: What do you say?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you remember that catchphrase? Hey are you cool? Cats
Speaker 5: and kittens?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah?
Speaker 5: Five years ago? What was the anniversary on Thursday?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: What was the five year anniversary? Uh?
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 5: That was Carol Baskin. We all got to look into
Speaker 5: her feud with Joe Exotic, oh Man Figer King, Yes.
Speaker 1: Hey are you cool? At Katthain Kittens?
Speaker 4: And the week.
Speaker 5: Prior on March eleventh, five year anniversary of Rudy Gobert
Speaker 5: starting COVID, rubbing all the mics.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, patient zero, right, patient zero, and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and you remember Tom Hanks had it and
Speaker 5: that's when everybody was like, oh my god, and the
Speaker 5: world shut down. We thought it was going to be
Speaker 5: two weeks, you know, for the curve and all that,
Speaker 5: and so we got into the same discussion.
Speaker 4: Can you believe it's been five years?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty pretty wild man. We're just in a
Speaker 3: hot tub time machine. We are zooming and Joe was
Speaker 3: it Joe exotic?
Speaker 1: Isn't he in jail still? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Carol Baskin I think sold the property that she was on.
Speaker 5: She was an interesting lady. I remember I booked her
Speaker 5: on Clay Travis's I.
Speaker 1: Remember you trying to track her down. I do remember.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she was hard to track down. She wasn't as
Speaker 5: hard to track down as I thought. What was really
Speaker 5: hard was convincing her to go on the air because
Speaker 5: a lot of people burned her in the media because
Speaker 5: everybody assumed that she was a murderer.
Speaker 4: Remember, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of people thought and assumed she murdered
Speaker 5: her ex husband because that's the way she was portrayed.
Speaker 5: And so she didn't want to get blindsided by media
Speaker 5: so I had to exchange email after email with this
Speaker 5: lady for weeks, sent her pictures of my cat true story,
Speaker 5: and got to talking with her about pets and everything.
Speaker 5: She finally felt comfortable enough with me to go on
Speaker 5: the air. It was awesome and of course the first
Speaker 5: question Klay Travis asked her was, so, did you kill
Speaker 5: your ex husband?
Speaker 4: Did he did it?
Speaker 5: He alluded to the media problems that she had, but
Speaker 5: he didn't come out and say it, Thank goodness.
Speaker 4: I thought she would have hung up. For sure.
Speaker 1: Who was who was more impressive to talk to him
Speaker 1: that time? Her?
Speaker 4: Or Donald Trump? President Trump?
Speaker 5: Definitely Trump on his cell phone. Yeah, that is on
Speaker 5: his personal cell phone.
Speaker 3: I still I'll run into people and in conversation, you know,
Speaker 3: Trump's name will come up, and I'll be do you
Speaker 3: know he he's the president and he calls on.
Speaker 1: His own phone.
Speaker 6: He calls on his own I still like, I remember
Speaker 6: when we were kids, and it was like Ronald Reagan
Speaker 6: would call the Washington Redskins to congratulate, remember the team
Speaker 6: that won the Super Bowl?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, for sure, I remember. I remember him talking
Speaker 5: to Al Davis.
Speaker 1: Remember, yes, yes, but you remember how it would work.
Speaker 3: It would be the White House called stand by for
Speaker 3: the President of the United States, you know, some some
Speaker 3: dues from the White ye.
Speaker 4: It was like the official secretary of the White House.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you got President Trump. All right, let's
Speaker 3: go to Don online three from d C. Don you
Speaker 3: just it was like texting.
Speaker 5: Me and calling me off his cell phone. It was amazing.
Speaker 5: I'm still mind blown by that. It's such a weird time, man,
Speaker 5: when you think back to all that and us having
Speaker 5: those FEMA passes, the producers and driving in every day
Speaker 5: when nobody, absolutely nobody was on the road, to the
Speaker 5: point where I got pulled over, not once, not twice,
Speaker 5: three times during all that and had to show them
Speaker 5: my THEMA car. Twice in Burbank. Once in Sherman Oaks,
Speaker 5: I was pulled over because I was literally the only
Speaker 5: car driving on the road at four am. Now, I
Speaker 5: know that's early, but you know, with normal business, there's
Speaker 5: still quite a few cars on the road at that
Speaker 5: time in southern California.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, there are.
Speaker 3: And I remember we started doing the shows from home
Speaker 3: around that time, but I would go in early.
Speaker 1: On the first couple of.
Speaker 3: Weeks we were going in and everything was shut down
Speaker 3: because it was that two weeks, you know, stop the
Speaker 3: thing and you'll be back. And I remember driving was
Speaker 3: it flatten the curve? Flatten the curve? Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 3: remember that was the thing. But I remember driving on
Speaker 3: the highway on the you know I five near Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 3: and I thought I was in the twilight zone. I'm
Speaker 3: in the second largest city in America and You're the only.
Speaker 1: Car on the road. It was unreal.
Speaker 3: I was like crazy, and I'm like I'm going, I'm
Speaker 3: doing like Circle eight C and all.
Speaker 1: I'm driving around like a yeah crazy with dude.
Speaker 4: Dude.
Speaker 5: It's one of my most vivid Yeah, you're you're dead on.
Speaker 5: It's one of my most vivid memories of all that.
Speaker 5: And for our Throwback Thursday topic, Covino and Rich for
Speaker 5: an hour talked about the biggest memories with sports in
Speaker 5: our network, things that were going on in general in
Speaker 5: life at that time and how weird everything was. And
Speaker 5: there were a lot of callers calling in and saying
Speaker 5: what they remembered the most about it, and one caller
Speaker 5: in particular thanked our network because he said, and by
Speaker 5: the way, he called you out by.
Speaker 4: Name, Oh a good way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he said, that the hour and a half he
Speaker 5: got to listen to Ben Mallor on his commute to work,
Speaker 5: because he was still one of the essential workers. That
Speaker 5: was the only thing at the time that made him
Speaker 5: feel normal.
Speaker 3: Well, there's nothing normal about my show, but I appreciate
Speaker 3: I appreciate his kindness. Yeah, it was to think about
Speaker 3: now in hindsight, because I remember when I first came
Speaker 3: into sports radio in you know, I was a kid,
Speaker 3: and every year, the one month people bitched about was
Speaker 3: the month of late from like mid June to late July,
Speaker 3: before NFL training camps kind of got going.
Speaker 1: And the worst was the All Star break.
Speaker 3: In Major League Baseball because there were no Yeah, and
Speaker 3: this was before social media and all that. So to
Speaker 3: think that we as as sports gas bags, did one
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty four days of sports radio without sports
Speaker 3: like the whole thing shut down. It was March March eleventh,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty, all the way till July two third.
Speaker 1: There were no sporting events in America.
Speaker 3: There was no There was like Korean baseball we got
Speaker 3: to watch on TV and stuff, but.
Speaker 5: There were the stupid NASCAR simulation races that games of
Speaker 5: horse on zoom on ESPN.
Speaker 3: Remember, Yeah, I was bringing up Marble racing, is what
Speaker 3: I Hey.
Speaker 5: I brought that up on Covino and Rich. I talked
Speaker 5: about how I'll never forget you doing the monologue on
Speaker 5: the Marble Race Championship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I gave the.
Speaker 5: Hosts a lot of props because I remember our boss
Speaker 5: Scott Shapiro getting all of us on a zoom saying,
Speaker 5: and not sure how long this is going to last,
Speaker 5: but without games, we really you know, this was when
Speaker 5: we knew there was going to be no tournament and
Speaker 5: the NBA said no more, and we thought, oh is
Speaker 5: this going to go for a long time. Nobody was
Speaker 5: really sure, and I remember Scott Shapiro telling all of
Speaker 5: us producers, this is when you got to dig down
Speaker 5: deep and find some really entertaining content that's not on
Speaker 5: the surface. You're going to have to dig and work hard. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and I'll never forget that zoom call. Everybody was nervous.
Speaker 5: We didn't know if there were going to be a
Speaker 5: lot less listeners, and it turned out there were so
Speaker 5: many more because people had all this extra time on
Speaker 5: their hands and they were trapped and they wanted some comfort,
Speaker 5: just like that caller was alluding to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's true.
Speaker 3: We had the most listeners we've ever had in the
Speaker 3: history of the network. Twenty five years now and the
Speaker 3: network's been on and the most listeners were during the pandemic.
Speaker 3: Which does that say that we're not good at talking
Speaker 3: about sports.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But it was crazy and I have
Speaker 1: and we still.
Speaker 3: Get I get letters today from people that started listening
Speaker 3: during the pandemic that have been with me and with
Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio ever since then, just kind of hanging
Speaker 3: out with us because they were just people couldn't sleep,
Speaker 3: they were up at night, they couldn't know deal with life.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: Been The memories of this bothered Covino so much that
Speaker 5: during the segment he had to stand up and talk.
Speaker 5: As he was standing in right when we went to commercials,
Speaker 5: he went outside and did a lap. He had COVID
Speaker 5: to the point where he was in the hospital and
Speaker 5: a priest came in and gave him a rosary and
Speaker 5: prayed over him. So he thought he was a goner
Speaker 5: during COVID.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: It's it was a wild time, and you know it's
Speaker 3: you think you're we don't do list as you know, Danny,
Speaker 3: We're not to a list show, but on Big Ben's
Speaker 3: big board that COVID, And then I remember driving I
Speaker 3: was at the Fox lot on nine to eleven doing
Speaker 3: updates when then that happened, and then driving past Lax
Speaker 3: with no flights because all the airports were closed. I
Speaker 3: remember remember that had actually been in New York two
Speaker 3: weeks prior to nine to eleven in the World Trade
Speaker 3: Center and the famous story September I was. I was
Speaker 3: there in like late August, like the last couple of
Speaker 3: days of August, in before nine to eleven, and we
Speaker 3: were in the lobby of the World Trade Center, the
Speaker 3: observation deck, and it was about four fifteen in the
Speaker 3: afternoon or something like that, and they were charging an
Speaker 3: ungodly amount of money to take the elevator up to
Speaker 3: the observation deck. And they said at five o'clock you're
Speaker 3: gonna have to leave. So I said, screw that, I'm
Speaker 3: not paying that money. I'll come back. I remember I
Speaker 3: tell my brothers, I said, oh, I'll come back. You know,
Speaker 3: these things aren't going anywhere, and I'll come back next
Speaker 3: time I'm in New York.
Speaker 1: And they did go. They were gone. But so after
Speaker 1: that I.
Speaker 3: Did learn that lesson to always even if you only
Speaker 3: have a few minutes, ye know't do it.
Speaker 1: You never know what's going to happen and all that.
Speaker 3: But anyway, on that note, I think we will put
Speaker 3: the baby to bed here enjoy the college basketball today.
Speaker 3: So I know by the end of the weekend we'll
Speaker 3: be down to the sweet sixteen. So we down to
Speaker 3: by the end of the day today, is it the
Speaker 3: twenty four? Are we down to twenty four teams?
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 4: I think you're right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so we go to twenty four today and
Speaker 3: then by the end of tomorrow it'll be down to
Speaker 3: the sweet sixteen. Anyway, all right, well we'll do the
Speaker 3: math on that. The math ain't math, and I think
Speaker 3: I'm writing into that though I'm not a numbers guy,
Speaker 3: but that doesn't seem to add up.
Speaker 4: How dare you?
Speaker 1: All right? Have a great rest of your day today.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: We'll have a mailbag podcast, a brand spanking new mailbag
Speaker 3: podcast obviously tomorrow, and we'll catch you then later.
Speaker 4: Skater my Folation