WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Always Need the Weather...& Sodie 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 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a 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 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:30.640 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:36.559 In the air everywhere. Welcome to another weekend of the 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:40.320 Fifth Hour with Me, Big Ben and Danny g Radio. 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.720 As it is the seventh day of the month of June, 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.199 and my mind is proper I think it is. This 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:52.840 is our first Friday show for the podcast, because June 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.480 first was what Saturday? Am I correct? I believe correct, 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.040 You're right, Look at that. I'm a human app. I'm 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:00.960 an app that has the the dates and and all that. 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.760 Well, we just recorded that weekend show yesterday. As that 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.200 listener pointed out, we do all these shows in a 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:08.360 couple of days in a row. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:14.720 Yes, exactly, exactly. Genius, absolute genius here and so we 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.000 begin the weekend here and I will get into a 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.920 story I promised on the radio show. The original Recipe show, 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:26.679 not the Extra Spicy, Extra Crispy Podcast. Some stuff that's 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.319 been going on behind the scenes here, So I'll share 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.120 that with you coming up in a little bit. But 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:35.880 I understand tonight is the final episode of the Wheel 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.240 of Fortune with the Goat? Is that correct, Danny? Am 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.160 I hearing properly that? Today? Is it? It's all over? 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:48.320 Wheel of Fortune? His last swan, his swan song? Is 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.040 that what they say? This should be a phrase of 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:51.120 the week swan song. 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.880 Oh, don't make me look at out there. You're trying 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:55.360 to incite. 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.440 Yeah, but say Jack started in nineteen eighty one on 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:03.720 that show Holy Shiska Bob over forty yeah, over forty 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.920 years ago, and of course Ofvannah White is gonna stay 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.519 on with your boy Ryan Seacrest. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.280 Yeah, Well, here's the thing. I had a couple of 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.960 run ins over the years with Pat Say Jack and 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.320 in a really good way, in a really good way, 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.160 and they were all well, they were u sporting him 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.920 as a Dodger stadium. He was a regular at Dodgers Dam. 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.239 He loved the La Kings. It was odd though, because 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:32.360 Say Jack lives in I think he's in Virginia. 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.240 Yeah, you've talked about it before on the podcast that 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.320 he'll fly to LA Yeah, tape all those shows and 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:40.120 then fly back to his home state. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.680 Yeah, it's quite the gig, the nightly game shows like 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.400 Jeopardy and the Wheel of Fortune. Price is right. I'm 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.840 not sure about presses, right, but I know with Jeopardy 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:55.079 and whatnot, they'll end up filming like five episodes in 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.360 a day, and they'll they'll do a week of shows 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:00.640 and then they'll go on hiatus for a while and 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:02.480 then come back and do a week of shows. 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.959 And so, man, imagine if we could do that in radio, 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:05.960 I'd be. 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.799 Great, man, just roll them all out and then that's it. 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.280 But Sajack was great, and I have some very fun 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.000 memories when I was a young young lad Danny back 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:19.200 in the day and Stu Nahan who was a big 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.480 time sportscaster in LA when I was a kid, and 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.520 I knew Stu as an adult as a young adult, 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:25.480 and Stu. 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:27.200 He was on the Naked Gun movies. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.520 Yeah, he was in a bunch of different movies. I 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.480 just think about baseball as like a character actor behind 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.240 the scenes as a sportscaster. Ironically enough, his nickname was 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:42.080 Silver Tip. Stu because he was known as a cheap ass. 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.440 But Stu was quite the character. And he was doing 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.480 local television back when it was the Ron Burgundy era 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.000 of television. If you know Anchorman, that old movie Anchorman, 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.920 that's about what it was. I don't know, Ron, that 0:03:56.040 --> 0:04:00.920 sounds kind of crazy. Pat Sajack would. I was hanging 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.000 out at during batting practice at Dodge Stadium one of 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:08.640 the days years ago, and and Stu was there. And 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.120 Pat Sajak happened to be there because he's Pat f 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:12.960 and Sajack, you know, do whatever you want. He was 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.039 on the field prior to the game, and he was 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.839 he was going at it was Stu because the famous 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:24.440 story that Pat Sajack had had told and I know 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.200 he's written about this, It's been written, but it was 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.640 great to hear it from the horse's mouth. When Pat 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:32.520 Sajak was working at Channel four in LA, the NBC affiliate, 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:37.279 he got this offer to do the Wheel of Fortune, 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:39.880 and so he consulted with stun Ahan. He said, what 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.919 do you think is to do? And I think Sayjack 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:46.800 was like the weather person at the time, and Stu said, 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.640 don't do that. Game shows come and go, but people 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.920 always need the weather, you know, something to that effect, 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.960 and who goofed I've got to know, you know. And 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:02.400 so anyway, needless to say, Pat would remind Stull regularly 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.560 of that. And actually Pat spoke as to his memorial 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.320 service they had which was right across the street from 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.599 from our studios there, and they rant it out the 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.760 movie theater had like a celebration of life. But first 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.880 two when he passed away, and say Jack was there 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:22.280 and all that he flew out. But hey, listen, Pat 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.080 sajak Ago, he's not dead, He's just gonna It's one 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.080 of those jobs. Why do you even bother retiring? You 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.440 know what I mean? It's like one of those jobs. Yeah, 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:30.320 just keep doing it. 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.640 I mean a legend in the game show game I 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.599 think I know the answer to this. But if you 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.359 could host one game show, what would it be? 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.920 Well, my favorite when I was a kid was Let's 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.400 make a deal with Monty Hall. I love that. That 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.240 was really cool. I think that's on again. I think 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:52.840 that's that's a thing. But I loved uh I Whenny 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.440 Big Money Stop. I also like that. That's not on anymore. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:06:00.240 Jokers Wild, No, it wasn't Jokers Wild. I just I'm 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.479 matter a mental block here, but it was what it 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.839 was in It was like a nineteen eighties game show, 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:12.680 No Aamy nommy stop. What was it called? Press your Luck? Yes, 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.760 press your Luck? That's it. Press your Luck. That was 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.280 kind of cool. But I mean, any game shows, it's 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.560 a great gig. You got a game show, job your set. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.200 Remember Drew Carey when he was at one point a 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.680 big star in the nineties, right, Drew Carey show was 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.400 very popular. That was in the nineties, right, I think 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.560 that was in the nineties. I think so, yeah, And 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.560 then he kind of he went down a little bit 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.960 and then all of a sudden he went right back 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.800 up with the game show because he replaced Bob Barker 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.640 as the host of his show, What would you Do? Danny? 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:47.760 What would your game show? 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:47.880 Be? 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.120 The newlywed game. As a little kid, they always said whoopee, 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.040 and I didn't know what they were talking about. 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:57.720 Do you now know what they're talking about to you now? 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:02.280 No? Maybe that could be a word of the week, That. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.040 Could be the word the word o the we are well. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.359 Good luck to Pat say Jack who's made an s 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:13.840 load of money and an old radio contemporary of ours, 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.240 is going to replace him? Is that correct? Am I 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:22.200 hearing that accurately? The yep, Ryan Seacrest, who when I 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.480 was doing mid days starting out my career mid Days 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:29.760 in LA and then Seacrest was doing afternoon drive at 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:34.119 ninety eight seven Star FM. And look at us now, Danny, 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.360 look at us now. Your careers are like a mirror 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.240 of each other. It's a doppelganger, me of him, him 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.120 of me. That's just the way it is. That's the 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:43.600 way it is. 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.320 A lot of people don't know this, but the very 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.960 first season of American Idol you were his co host 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:48.480 on TV. 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.080 Yeah, we don't like to talk about that. It didn't 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.200 work out, but at the time it seemed like a wonderful, 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.320 wonderful thing. So I wanted to mention something. There's a 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.560 few things that have gone on since we last spoke 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.320 on the pot yess not have you done the radio 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.080 show every night? Well, that's a little different. The radio 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:06.600 show is different. This is behind the curtain. This is 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.360 how we make the Hawt talks. You're never supposed to 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:09.800 tell people how you make the Hawt talks. Well, this 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.120 is how we make the hawtthalks. So this past weekend 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:19.320 kind of a melancholy type of a weekend for several reasons. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.200 One of them I will get to right now, the 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.680 passing of a friend of mine who worked in the 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.920 media for a long time, TJ. Simers. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:29.840 T J. 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:34.080 Simers is a longtime newspaper man, one of the last 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.920 great columnists in America when that mattered, and that meant something. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.559 To be a columnist in a newspaper doesn't mean much now, 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.600 but back in the day it meant a lot. I've 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.119 read his columns in the nineties. Yeah, I loved TJ's 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.400 work as a columnist, and I got to call him 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.160 a friend, which was even cooler. And he died. He 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:57.480 had brain cancer, and he died on Sunday. But as 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.559 Paul Harvey would say, that's the news. But now you're 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.640 going to get the rest of the story. And this 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.400 is something that I haven't We talked about. It was 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.720 a private matter and I didn't want to get into 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.719 it here. I didn't do it to get any kind 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.880 of attention, not that I would get attention for it anyway. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.080 But I was alerted several months back that TJ had 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.960 brain cancer by a mutual friend of ours, my friend Jay, 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.079 who used to be a big editor at the La 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:28.120 Times back in the day, and so we were ahead. 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.920 We got to see TJ. And so, starting I would say, 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:37.040 three months ago, once every couple of weeks we went 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:43.000 to TJ's house. He had been bedridden. Was you know, 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.240 he had made the decision and I don't want to 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.200 get too much into this is his family's decision, but 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.000 he he had decided that you know, this was not 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.360 this was going to be the end, and he had 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:58.760 incurable brain cancer and rather than try some experimental stuff 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.680 and he did try one experiment mental thing, he just 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.200 made the decision that this was going to be how 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:05.960 he would check out, and you know, we all have 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:07.120 to die some way, and this was you know, he 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.480 just figured this is it and there's nothing I can 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.880 do it. And so I was able to visit him 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.079 and we'd go and chat. The first time he went 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.240 was we were there a couple hours and actually I 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.480 made him cookies. The last couple of times I saw 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:23.240 him the Tuesday, oh nice, yeah, he uh, the Tuesday 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:27.040 before before he passed away, we were at his house, 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.839 you know, bullshitting, you know, talking about nas and we 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:32.800 didn't really talk that much sports. We started out talking 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:37.400 sports and TJ was on this podcast I think the 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:41.960 end of twenty twenty three, I believe we yeah had 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:42.199 them on. 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:43.640 Oh I remember that, yeah. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.080 Yeah, and it was great. We told a lot of 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:51.240 the stories on that podcast. My favorite TJ stories when 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:55.520 TJ took over as the columnist in page two, which 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.440 was a big deal in the LA Times, and I 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:03.360 think he replaced Jim Murray if I remember remember correctly, 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.800 But either way, TJ was a football writer. The first 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.160 time I ever interacted interacted with TJ, he was a 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.720 San Diego based The LA Times had a bureau in 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.680 San Diego, charger beat reporter. He then became the NFL 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:22.560 columnist when in his time as the NFL columnist, the 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:27.560 LA market lost the Rams and the Raiders. They both left, 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.160 and so TJ was writing about the NFL when there 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:34.360 was no NFL in the market. And at that time, 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:36.559 the NFL was popular, but it was not nearly as 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.520 popular as it is these days. And so anyway, TJ 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.480 would write about the NFL, and often what he would 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.480 do is go to these big events and pester the 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.760 commissioner when is LA going to get a team? Blah 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.880 blah blah, blah blah, and that was his thing. But 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.840 I had him on. I was. It was in the nineties. 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.120 I was like in my early twenties doing a talk 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.360 show with Dave Smith. We had on the old Ben 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.880 and Dave Show. We had tj on in the middle 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.199 of the interview did not like the questions that we 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.560 were asking, so he yelled at us and then hung 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.280 up in the middle of the interview. And I still 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.440 I brought that up to him. Actually, this past last 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:15.959 time I saw him, were talking about some of the 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.000 old old stories. 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.600 That was at that point in his career. Was he 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.640 cool with you or did he not really know you? 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:24.920 At that point? No, I thought he hated me. I 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:29.400 thought he despised me. And the turning point was when 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.040 I was doing stuff with the Dodgers, and then he 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.040 took over as the columnist for the Times and he 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.840 would go out. Davy Johnson was the Dodger manager, and 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.280 Davy had a lot of success with the Mets and 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.400 was really living off that success he had managing the Mets, 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.200 who had a bunch of guys that hit a lot 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.200 of home runs and cocaine, the eighty six Mets, and 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.560 he was the manager of that team, and so you know, 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.240 he's just kind of going through the motions. And when 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.760 TJ took over, he came out as a flame throw. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:05.120 He just was hammering everybody. And the LA media was 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.400 not used. That was not how they operate. The teams 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.800 in LA didn't know how to handle that at all. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:14.960 They were like freaking out right. They were like, oh 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.720 my god, you know this guy is you know, he's 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:19.760 stirring up a hornets nest here. What are you doing? 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:24.120 And it was so bad. One of the Dodger beat 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.800 writers went to every player on the team for the 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.000 LA Times Dodger beat writer and talked to every player 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.440 and said, I'm not with that guy, like because he 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.520 was that much of a loose cannon and all that. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:38.559 But I loved it. I mean, I thought it was 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:42.360 the greatest thing. That's that's how I was raised to approach. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.360 You know, sports, you're supposed to be critical and you're 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.520 not supposed to kiss the player's ass. You're not part 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.920 of the team. You're supposed to question some things here 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.719 and hold people accountable. And TJ did that. He used 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:57.760 to call the owner, Frank McCord, the Boston parking lot 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.120 of Tendant was what he called Frank mc court and 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.320 just would slay him every day. And you gotta remember, 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.040 TJ got in a lot of trouble for that because 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.360 the one of the big advertisers for the La Times 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.280 was the Dodgers. They would buy huge, you know, full 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.760 full page ads in the newspaper and that was a 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.480 big old deal. Right, You're attacking an advertiser, so that 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.760 was a problem. My favorite all time TJ story, though 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:28.800 I have several, as we pay respects to the great 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.560 late TJ. Simers. When he was it was working for 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.560 the Orange County Register, but he did this starting at 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.720 the LA Times. He would take shots at Artie Marino. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.560 He'd called him angry Artie, and Artie Marino got so 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:46.160 upset with TJ. Simers that he literally punished all of 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.600 the media in Los Angeles. This is one of my 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.680 all time great stories of a rogue owner being so 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:58.680 upset with a revolutionary media guy that this thing escalated 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:04.040 into a nuclear situation. Because it turns out Artie Marino 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.400 moved the press box at the Big A from behind 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.080 home plate where it had been since the stadium opened, 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:15.120 and that's traditionally where every single press box is right, 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.040 there's only a couple that aren't there. And he moved 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.960 it down near the pearly gates, down near the right 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.280 field foul pole, where you the media can't even see 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.640 the game from the press box. And he did that 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.800 because of TJ Simers, because he was so upset with 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:34.000 TJ Simers and what a mischief maker TJ was, and 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.880 how agitating he was, you know, just really annoying Marino. 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:39.800 He just he said, all right, we'll move the press 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:43.480 box and he did. And but you know, TJ had 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.920 a gruff exture. He wasn't for everybody. He wasn't. But 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:48.760 the thing that I love about and TJ. We were 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.560 actually talking about this also over the last couple of 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:56.800 times I saw him, was he became friends with Vin Scully, 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:01.600 Chick Hern, Bob Miller, these iconic podcasters in Los Angeles. 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:06.960 Was buddies with John Wooden and Kobe Bryant. These people 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.200 loved it, and we were telling he was telling me 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.960 stories about John Wooden and he said that wouldn't hated 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.160 being called the Wizard of Westwood and he did not 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.880 like the fact that everywhere he went people kissed his 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.880 ass and TJ didn't kiss his ass and busted his 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:27.040 chops and wouldn't loved it. He loved it. Was a 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:32.080 great story about that. And Kobe Bryant also liked the 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:36.200 approach that that TJ had. I it was a Mamba 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.880 mentality or not, but he didn't hold back and Kobe 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:41.280 Kobe respected that. 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.600 So you talked about that Fullerton restaurant and I saw 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:48.440 an Instagram story on it a real just this past week, 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.240 and it said that he told the staff there at 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.400 that restaurant he loved being treated like a regular customer, 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.280 like he was just a regular dude. 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:57.200 Yeah. 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.320 Yeah, people who are when you get to a certain level, 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.680 you don't like that. You're like, no, I'm not, you know, 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.119 I'm just a normal person. I just happened to be 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.280 good at something like that. So I wanted to really 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:13.760 say a tip of the headphones to TJ. I will 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:15.560 I will miss his wisdom. I mean, it has been 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.240 been away from the media business for a number of years. 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.800 He was doing a blog for a while. He this 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.400 just happened by the way I think he found out. 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:30.680 He fell down in I want to say maybe April 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:35.520 and something like that might have been Yeah, it might 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.000 have been March. I mean, it was real quick. It wasn't. 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.919 It wasn't a long situation from when it began to 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.360 when it ended. So but in one of a kind, 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:46.119 there's really nobody else like him, at least in the 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.399 LA media. I mean, Teach is a guy that was 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.760 on that show Around the Horn on ESPN and said 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.880 how much he hated the show while on the show, 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.800 and they ended up getting getting rid of him. And 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.240 then I've told in the past, in fact, we should 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.280 probably linked to that conversation we had with TJ. But 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.520 there was an incident with Dwight Howard when Dwight came 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:10.240 over and the Lakers had this supposedly the super team 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.440 with Dwight Howard and Steve Nash, except they they couldn't 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.240 they couldn't play. They were terrible together. And that thing 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.320 skyrocketed right into the ground. And when the opposite direction, 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:24.479 it was a dud. And one day Dwight Howard walks 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:28.600 into the Laker locker room. He's all depressed and he's cursing, 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:32.960 and what's this all about? And it turns out that 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.919 Dwight was upset because at that time Stephen A. Smith 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:40.359 and Skip Bayless were working together and they had said 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:44.800 some mean things about Dwight and he was annoyed by that. 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:48.520 And so THENDJ he goes up to just Dwight. You know, 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:50.399 no one watches that show, Dwight the rating, I mean, 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.640 you're you're upset. Why are you upset? I can show 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.760 you the ratings that show gets. No nobody's watching. It 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.400 was the funny and Dwight could not wrap his head 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:00.960 around the fact that that show had very few people watching. 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:06.399 In his head, everyone was watching that particular show, and 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.399 it's it was. It was pretty amusing, and you know, 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:11.560 it was great. And TJ did actually listen to the 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.920 Overnight show and didn't hate it, which was which was 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.159 a nice thing as well. Good for my good for 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.240 my ego. So I rest in peace the late great TJ. Simons, 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:26.240 who passed away on this past Sunday. I also, before 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:29.080 I get any further, I did want to mention that 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:34.000 we had one oversight on Big Ben's Big Board. Not 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:38.440 a list, Danny, not a list, Big Ben's Big Boy. 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.359 It was a really good list. So I'm curious to 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:42.240 hear what we missed. 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.280 So we had the Street takeover, the Burn, Baby Burn, 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:49.840 the Casey Kasem thing wrong, Button, Bob All that the 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:54.200 shooting gallery, the mobster Henry Hill. But I forgot about 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:59.119 this one classic story, the night the bats got in 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.640 the studio. Do do do Do do do? Batman? Do 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:04.880 do do do? Do do do? Batman? Yeah? 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.760 That was during Roberto the bus Driver's tenure, right. 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:12.480 Yes, yes, it happened multiple times that bat's got in 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:14.360 the studio. I was not there one of the times. 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.880 That's probably why I had forgotten, But I was there 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:21.760 the other time, and we actually did live coverage. We 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:26.960 had boots on the ground, yes, outside, as this story developed, 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:27.520 we were there. 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.400 Was it Mike Carmon on a phone, Yeah. 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:32.520 Harmon was on the phone. We had there were several 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:34.960 people involved. We had one person was the door guy 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:38.560 to leave the door to the courtyard open. But then 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:42.919 there was a chase guy that like chasing tornadoes, trying 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:48.120 to push good luck pushing a bat out of the studio. 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:50.439 And remember they thought the bat was gone, but the 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.320 bat was actually hiding at one point. But there was 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:57.040 a successful movement to get the bat out. But I 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.399 do recall that, and so thank you. 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