WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Mobster's Parm & Then Rats 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Cutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearinghouse 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:30.640 Hour with Ben Mahler starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:29.680 In the a. 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:33.480 Em Way. 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.519 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g As 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:42.760 we hang out and schmoos all week in long and 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:46.120 a happy Saturday to you as we have reached the 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:51.120 seventeenth day of the month of February. Spring training underway. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.200 We talked a little baseball this week on the Overnight Show. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.400 It's just a little bit. I'm happy that weasel Rob 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.400 Manford's leaving. I wish he was leaving sooner. 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.160 Yeah. When Monty did enough date and announced that in 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:02.360 the background, I said. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:03.680 Bye bye, bye bye. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:05.759 Yeah. Yeah, just a piece of metal. 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.440 They should give him a statue in Houston. Rob Manford 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.280 got a statue in Houston, trash can. Yeah, they should 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.880 retire his name in Houston. 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:16.520 Uh. 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.800 No, one in the history of sports has done more 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:30.080 to support cheaters than Rob Manford. Oh and I'm seeing 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.040 some of these these baseball writers writing these these think 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.679 pieces about what a great commissioner Rob Manford is and 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.000 how baseball is going to be, you know, be in 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.839 a tough spot to replace him. I'm like, really, how 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.320 hard is to replace the guy? I mean, the guy's 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.800 a snake. The guy is a snake. What are you doing? 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.600 I don't want to. We don't do sporty here, but 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:55.360 on this the Saturday Pod, we have chicken Palm with 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:59.840 Big Red. Chicken Palm with Big Red, kick him out. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.040 We've got the idiom of the week, and who knows 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:03.920 what else we will have time for, but we begin 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:08.400 with this. So back to lost wages Nevada last week. 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.160 A couple of things about the trip. Now, I did 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.680 not get the first class VIP Tree, but I went 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.400 on my own. The company did not pay for a 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.440 single cent of my trip to Las Vegas. I wanted 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.200 to go, I had access to it. I didn't get 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.680 a hotel room, I didn't get to airfare, I didn't 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:27.440 get any meals paid for. I paid out of pocket. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.359 So I drove. We drove from La to Vegas. I 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:35.079 did the overnight show. I took a bath for about 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.960 thirty minutes to try to calm my mind down, and 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.920 then got in the car and drove to Vegas. And 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:45.840 I like driving. I don't really like flying to Vegas. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:47.360 I like having my car with me, even though they 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.600 charged thirty bucks to park everywhere in Vegas and that's embarrassing. 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.560 And Vegas was better when the mob ran it. But 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.760 I drove through the night to get to Vegas. We 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.360 got there, had to get there early because we had 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.680 an early win though, to record some of the podcasts 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.239 and whatnot. And you have to go through NFL security 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:07.840 and there's a whole bunch of hoops you have to 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:09.520 jump through to get into where you need to go 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.280 and all that stuff. But on the way to Vegas, 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:17.440 we stopped in your Mo beautiful your Mo, not my Mo, 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.000 your moo. Now we did not where. 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.400 You're hoping to build a vacation home someday. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.160 You can get land very cheap there, very cheap. So 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.560 in Beautiful Eumo, which is one of the many stops 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:32.960 along the highway from La into Vegas Highway fifteen. If 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:34.920 you've made that drive from La to Vegas, and so 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:41.040 there stops in Victorville, Barstow, your mo and then you've 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.960 got Baker and then you go to right through the 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.880 state line, Nevada state line. You've got right there across 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:50.920 the border, prim where you have on one side Buffalo bills. 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.080 On the other side, you've got a different hotel there 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.720 and so side by side. But we stopped in yourmo 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:58.720 at Peggy Sue's Diner. 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:01.080 Driven past that. 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.440 Yeah, they have a lot of billboards out in the desert. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:09.320 And my wife was kind enough. I drove to Barstow 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.040 and then she took over. So I drove halfway and 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.640 then I started to get a little tired. I got 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.320 a little tired, so she took over, and then she 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.919 wanted to get somebody to eat. So I was fasting, 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.440 so I was like, go wherever you want. And she's like, hey, 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.279 is Peggy Sue's diner. So we went to Peggy Sue's Diner. 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.880 It's a cool little roadside diner in the middle of nowhere. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.000 They've got different themes, old Hollywood memorabilia sitting in the 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.160 middle of the desert. It's very odd because you go 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.520 there and you've got all these like whole Hollywood mementos 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.320 in the middle of nowhere, and then down the road 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.200 is this place called Eddie World. Not Eddie's World. Should 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.000 be Eddie's World. It's called Eddie World and it's just 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.640 a gas station and then a candy store. And for 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.200 some reason, in that place in Eddie World, they have 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:58.840 a piece of the floor from the original forum, the 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:03.880 court that and Kareem and the Lakers played on winning 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:08.640 all those championships back in the day. They actually have 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.680 the Laker logo from that court sitting in a truck stop. 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.160 It's pretty funny. You should go there sometime, Danny when 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.800 you drive to Vegas, because it's it's it's hilarious, Like 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.720 of all the places for this to end up. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:25.080 Yeah, it's like that famous Big Santa Claus that used 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.320 to sit on the roof of that candy store in 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.480 Santa Barbara. As kids on the one on one freeway 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.640 on that drive, we'd always see the Big Santa Claus 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.200 on top of the building. Well, it started to uh 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.920 break that roof down on that property, so they had 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.479 to get the Big Santa Claus with a crane off 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:47.880 of there and it wound up. Of all places in Oxnard, California, 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:52.120 across from the Strawberry Fields where a Gentleman's club is. 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.080 Oh is that right? Yeah, so same sort of thing. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.039 It's like, how did that get there? 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.919 Yeah, it's like when I went to the Neon Museum 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.120 and they had all like these giant I guess that 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.400 makes more sense the Neon Museum. Although we didn't get 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.320 to the one in Vegas. I heard the one in 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:12.240 Vegas is insane. So we stopped at Peggy Sues, through Euromo, 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.800 went to Vegas and all that. But that get to 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.599 the point, please, So I thought this was kind of amusing, 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:22.000 so we do the whole thing. It was a fun day, Danny. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.760 You were great. I appreciate your hard work. There was fun. 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.280 You were bouncing around because you had Covino and Rich 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.000 and you were doing stuff with me, and we had 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.479 to put it all together, and you had to do 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.080 a lot of the editing. So I thank you for that. 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:34.440 And so, but I was there a lot longer than 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.640 I anticipated because we had some interviews lined up, and 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:42.080 as we talked about some things went sideways and people 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.480 did not show up that were supposed to show up, 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:48.760 and so I was wandering around and I was I 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.440 just was killing time. I did a segment with Tony Bruno. 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:55.479 That's where the Kevin Harlan came up. And then some 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.920 of our old producers people that worked at Fox Sports Radio. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.680 I was talking to them. They were working different radio 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.360 stations and stuff, and just had it have fine time 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.120 at fine time. But I was there a lot longer 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:06.920 than I wanted to be, and so we went out 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.280 to get a bite to eat after we were done 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.840 with the radio row stuff, and we go to our 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.600 favorite Italian restaurant in Las Vegas. I've been there in 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.040 a couple of years. It's called Capos Have you ever 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.920 been to Capos No, I've heard of it. Though the 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:26.880 place is insane. It's like a speakeasy type place, a 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:27.960 real dark restaurant. 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:28.560 You know, it's good. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.160 I've never been to a bad restaurant that's got hardly 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:31.720 any lighting. 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:33.280 Sounded scary. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:40.720 Coppos restaurant and speak easy. Just amazing Italian food, just 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.280 just absolutely great. So we're in there and there's there's 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:45.720 a couple of things that stand out about this. 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:46.160 Danny. 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:51.840 Number One, I got I got shaken down. I got 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.600 shaken so we did not have reservations. It was super 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.880 Bowl weekend, and so they were pretty busy in there 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.160 and you needed reservation and we didn't have any reservations. 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.920 So my wife calls up because we were originally going 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:05.880 to go to this barbecue place that I had found, 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.600 this like local barbecue place which is way off the strip, 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:13.440 passed downtown, just like a locals barbecue place. But we 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.840 went to the barbecue place and I was like, this 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.400 is this place? Look amazing? Right, they had outdoor tables 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:22.640 and it looked just looked like your trashy Texas barbecue, 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:24.360 which you knew the food was going to be amazing, 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.760 and there were people lined up around the building. But 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.120 they closed in like forty minutes, and we looked at 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.880 the line and we did the math in our head. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.280 We're like, there's no way we could stay online. We 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.520 could wait online, but we're not going to get it. 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.360 And so I don't even know why were we. It's 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.640 kind of was kind of cold in Vegas, and I 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:44.719 was like, what are we going to do? You know, 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.920 as much as I want that barbecue, Vegas is like 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.360 a suburb of LA We'll be back again, no problem. 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:52.679 So then we were trying to find a restaurant. My 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.200 wife's like that, what about that Capos place? Said that 0:08:56.200 --> 0:09:01.120 place is good, and said I told her call her 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.080 call him up. So she calls him up and they're like, ah, 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.080 we don't have any reservations. You can't you know, you 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.680 can't here. So my wife's like, well, we're in town, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.480 but we're only in for a couple of nights and 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.520 we got to get back to La. We love your restaurant. 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.679 So the person on the phone is like, all right, 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.320 well come on down and I can't guarantee anything, but 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.600 you know, tell him so and so Sancho, we'll see 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.760 what we can do. So we go down to Capos 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.160 and they they have the speakeasy, so they let us. 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:26.840 They let us in. 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.800 This paisan racist he comes up to me, right, this 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.160 guy works at the restaurant. He comes up to me 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.280 to say, I need to talk to you and uh, 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.440 and my wife's like following and following with me, and 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:41.199 the guy's like, no, no, you stay here, I need 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.880 your husband. So he then takes me to the side 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:48.320 and he shakes me down. He said, listen you, yeah, 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.240 you take care of me. I can get your table 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:51.559 right over here, right in the front. 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.720 I'm like I told you Bobster started these restaurants. 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.000 So I'm like, God, I'm like in my head, I'm like, 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.679 I don't know, you know, like I don't I mean, 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:06.960 I like this place, but this is kind of shady. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.120 But I was like, did he give you an amount? 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.679 No, he didn't give me an amount, but I I 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:17.199 slipped him. I slipped him a few bucks and uh, 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.400 and he he took me right to the table. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:21.800 Is it then? Is it like that time with Rod 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:26.280 in Bakersfield where you tipped the waiter a five dollars? 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.280 You know, I wasn't exactly fun. I was, yeah, well 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:31.160 I didn't look. 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:32.640 See that was the way I thought it was one 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:36.160 hundred and it was a ten. Remember, Yeah, well it was. 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.120 It was a bit of a mistake, but I tried 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.200 to be smooth about it. I didn't want to look, 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:42.800 and I just kind of reached my hand in there. 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:44.640 I saw one in a zero and you're like, that 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:45.640 must be one hundred. 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.480 Back to the to the So I got shaken down. 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.320 I gave the guy, you know, some money, and then 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:54.040 he he took me to the table. 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:56.800 He didn't accidentally take a ten. I know that. 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.440 Yeah, it was it was a good table. My wife 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.400 was very happy, so, you know, it was before Valentine's 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.360 so whatever. It was fine. But the funniest part of 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.680 the night. And the food was fricking amazing, right was I. Normally, 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:10.360 if I got shaken down, I'd be like, oh, this 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.440 is terrible. The food was so good I didn't even 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.960 really care, you know. It was like just amazing that 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.640 everything was fresh and wonderful and one of the great 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.160 meals I've had. Maybe because I was hungry, I don't know, 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.679 but it was really good Italian food. I loved it. 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.760 And so we're in there. The place is packed, people 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:28.680 are all dauled up, they're all dressed up, they got 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:30.800 their church clothes on, right, they're all looking good. There's 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:35.960 live music, there's great Italian food, and here comes out 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.680 of nowhere, big brand, right, and at a corner of 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:45.439 my eye, I see this mob of young women and 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.800 middle aged men and they're all trying to get close 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.400 to Big Red, trying to get photos and it was 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:58.360 wowd So remember the guy that was walking around Radio row, 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:02.600 Danny the It looked like Andy Reid. You remember that guy, 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.160 Oh of course, yeah, yeah, yeah. He took a photo 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.439 with him. I did I know the guy. Actually, he's 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:11.360 a listener in Kansas City, and he's an Andy Reid impersonator. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:15.479 It's almost Andy Reid. So this guy goes to Capos. 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.040 I had talked to him earlier. I saw him last 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:22.640 year at the Super Bowl in Phoenix, and so he 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:26.439 walks in there and the people seemed to think that 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.560 that was actually Andy Reid. I don't think they realized 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:29.600 it wasn't Andy Reid. 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.839 Ben, they're not alone because my wife he saw your 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.000 Instagram page and she told me, that's so cool that 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:40.240 Ben is friends with Andy Reid. Yeah. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.360 No, So there were like beautiful young women that were 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:47.520 taking photos for their Instagram page with this guy, and 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.640 guys were like, dudes were like, oh Andy, you know, 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.280 good luck against the forty nine ers. Well, do these 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:58.800 people think that Andy Reid goes around to random restaurants 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.960 wearing his game day attire? That yeah, it's chicken palm 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.440 with big red out there. You know, it's like what hilarious? 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.040 Also, where was his wife? Because every time we see 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.680 this guy, his wife is somewhere near him. Usually she's 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.520 usually just a foot away from him. Post game, she 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.160 was standing hovering over him. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.760 Remember, yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw Andy do some interviews 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.319 and his wife was right next to him. But the 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.960 Andy Reid impersonator. This is great. So I actually talk 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.760 to the guy at the at the capitols, I saw him. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:30.800 I said, hey, you know what you should be doing 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.040 right now is go down where elmo is and Minnie 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.240 Mouse and Mickey Mouse. You know how much money that 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.679 guy would have made on tips if he had gone 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.480 down to the strip, you know, outside the oh yeah, 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.240 part of those cartoon characters walking around. 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.520 He would have made a fortune. Yeah, because your common 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:52.040 NFL fan would have paid twenty dollars to pose and 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.480 take a picture, and they could have lied or at 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:58.080 least tricked people the way you tricked my Wifey. You 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.800 weren't trying to she was. She was tricked just because 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.160 he looks so much like Andy Reid. 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:06.439 Yeah, yeah, he looks more like Andy Reid than. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.640 In people know where at the super Bowl. So in 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.199 her mind he was there interviewing with radio stations. 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:19.280 Yes, it's nuts, but that guy is a listener of 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.360 he's a connoisseur of sports radio. I should get him 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.680 on the podcast. I actually have his information. I can 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:27.880 get him on the pod sometime. But I could have 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:29.720 had him on last weekend, but I just think that's 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.720 more of a visual thing. I think we said that 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.520 on the podcast. But it's kind of be an interesting story, 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.480 like what it's like to look like Andy Reid and 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.040 when he goes to these events and stuff. 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.640 Oh, I'm sure he has wonderful stories to tell. 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.880 Yeah, but he's a listener because he and another one 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.520 of those kind of cool radio nerd moments Danny where 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.040 I introduced myself to him and he's, Oh, yeah, I 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.280 know who you are. I hear you. I've heard your show. 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.560 And I was an impersonator for one day. I'll tell 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.840 you the story in sixty seconds. Okay. So I worked 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.960 for a radio station in Ventura, California. One of our 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:05.280 am stations was kb ET. All right, so no big deal, 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.640 but there was a KBET van that they let me 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.080 drive sometimes. Well, the Raiders were in their last season, 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:16.040 playing in Oxnard for training camp now where the Cowboys 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.800 are located. They had me run an errand I had 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.560 to go out there because there was there was something 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.760 being delivered, a commercial for something was being delivered. So 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.680 I go out there to They called it the Raider 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.200 Radison at the time, and I pull up in the 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.800 kb Et van and there's some Raider players out there 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.800 in front of where the sports bar was, in front 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:38.000 of this ratison, and they told me, oh, kb Et, 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.840 hey come up here, come with us. So they invite 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.480 me up the stairs to one of the bungalows and 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.520 there's all these players who I recognized, of course, because 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.080 I'm a big Raiders fan, and they're all sitting around 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.320 in one of these rooms and they're just shooting the shit. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.400 One's playing like an NES video game from back in 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.440 the day, and they're talking to me. They're they're like, yeah, 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.800 chit down, blah blah blah, and they're talking about b 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.520 and then one of them says, so, how long have 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.480 you worked for be Et Television? 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:12.280 Well did you just going in? You're just like, hey, yeah, yeah, 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:13.000 it's been a while. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.840 I was a kid at the time, so I didn't 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:17.680 know how to roll with it, so I had to 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.800 explain to him who I was and what I did. 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.920 And let's just say my visit ended shortly thereafter. 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.040 Oh he's got to play along, right, Oh yeah. 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.280 Later in my career, I would have just played along 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.480 and been like, yeah, man, be ET's crazy. It's a 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:33.240 crazy job. 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.040 That's uh, that's pretty good there. But yeah, so the 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.720 any Reid thing, the Andy Reid look alike was pretty 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.840 pretty amusing. Of all the restaurants in Vegas, Like he 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:44.720 just happened to walk into that one. 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.680 What did you order there that everybody wants to know 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:48.280 what you Well? 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.280 I did eat the chicken palm. I love the chicken palm. 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.400 The chicken parm there was amazing. But we had we 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.680 went big, right, because this was like our big night out, 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.040 so we're a big eating night. We had toasted ravioli. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.360 Oh yeah, I was standing hard. 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:03.920 Those in marin Ea. 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.840 They had they had a really good it wasn't a Marenia, 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:07.440 but it was kind. 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:12.040 Of a ranch, no, Danny, Danny, No. 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:13.679 They had a really good sauce and we had like 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.840 a garlic cheese bread type thing which was really just 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.720 just the whole meal was was wonderful and as always, 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.400 what I did to prevent myself from from hating the meal. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.240 When the bill came, I told the wife, I said, Okay, 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.440 if I look at that, I can I can pay 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.040 for it, but I will be in a bad mood 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.200 the rest of the night. But if you pay for it. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:33.600 I will not be in a bad mood because I 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.520 will not know how much that is. And if I 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.880 know how much I'm paying for that meal, I will 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.080 want to throw it up and eat it again, so 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.280 I get two meals out of it. So that's that's 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.000 kind of the way we did our business. 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:44.600 On that Uh. 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.040 And then they they kicked us out. They didn't kick 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:48.920 them out. They kicked us out, Danny, which was a 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:50.440 little a little different there. 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.560 Yeah, just like how the Raider players kicked me out 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:57.040 of their bungalow. It's one. It's been one of those 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.040 weeks where I'm like, damn it, I need that. Why 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:01.520 didn't I put that back in my backpack, like a 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.000 shitty week where I'm unorganized because my stuff is all 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.400 over the place. Well, my schedule is like that too, 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:12.439 because the school and the school district they're like, Okay, 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.159 you can have the week off to go travel to 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.800 Las Vegas for the Super Bowl, but when you come back, 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.040 we need you to pick up a couple of extra 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:24.800 shifts to cover for people that covered for you. So 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.239 I'm like, all right, so I'll do your Fridays. I'm 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.399 usually off from there on Friday mornings, fine, So you 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.080 got to wheel and deal with your job sometimes to 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.040 get time off. All right, Well, here's the bad part. 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.919 I get a text message from our boss here at 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.600 the network and he says, Hey, some good news. You 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:46.320 guys are filling in for Dan Patrick next week Monday 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.600 through Wednesday. The hat trick. They call it the CNR 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.520 hat trick. Uh huh, Ben, you know what time the 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:53.440 Dan Patrick shows on? Yeah? 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:54.720 Early, early in the morning. 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.160 Yeah, it's the time where I have to go unlock 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:01.159 that campus and be an adult, all right, for the 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.439 for the second job there. I tell my boss, I'm like, 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.520 I think I could weasel out of Monday. 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:06.760 There. 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.840 There's no way I could get Tuesday and Wednesday off 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.640 next week from the school because I just ditched them 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.800 last week. I was trying to, you know, figure all 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.639 that out. And then I get a text later that 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:22.639 day saying, and next Thursday, you guys are filling in 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:27.200 for Colin Cowherd. Shit, I can't get that day off either. 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:32.760 But Colin starts at nine am. Okay, I can get 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:37.439 out of that campus at about eight thirty am. But 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.879 then I'm doing the math and I'm doing the ways app. 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.760 So a couple days ago on Thursday morning, right when 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:47.440