WEBVTT - The Pussy Willows 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.200 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.439 hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:32.040 with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:36.640 another Saturday edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:42.120 and Dainty g back at it again. No days off, 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:50.360 no days off, and here we are, very exciting, very exciting. 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:52.960 How's life treating Danny? You were on the show this week? 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:56.400 That was it's good to have you in for a night. Yeah, 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:58.840 it was really fun being in on the live show 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:03.160 to company the podcast this week. Yeah. People were very 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.160 excited that that must have made you feel good. And 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.800 people were like, oh man, Danny Jay's back. You know, 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.200 tell you what. Coop deserves a lot of credit, even 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.200 though people love giving him a lot of crap. Because 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.240 you have so many plates spinning at once on your 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.679 overnight show. You gotta keep it going, Daddy. You know, 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.840 it's it's it's always surprised motherfucker. You gotta keep it 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.479 like that, going one thing after another and all that. 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.080 But a lot of moving parts on your show. But 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.720 that's a compliment to your programming. Well, thank you. And 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.800 as you know, Danny, it can get very slow in 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:41.320 the overnight hours, so we try to keep the ship 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:46.600 moving and the time does fly. I've noticed the time 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.920 does go by pretty quick. And my only complaint is 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.640 when it came to password, one of the two contestants 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.760 was a slug and we could tell, and you could 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:00.680 tell that that of putting your name first like always do, 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.880 but my name first, so that he would choose me, 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:07.760 and sure enough he did, and I got the worst 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:11.640 partner in the history of password. Well, part of the 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.120 problem was we we actually I saved some more time 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.080 for password because you know, usually I don't Usually I'm like, 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.760 nobody knows how to you know, nobody knows any words. Uh, 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.120 this is a hot mess. You know, it's just it's 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.840 just a disaster. You know, it's like what every week 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:30.360 it's like. But this week I was like, all right, 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.280 we'll leave a little more time. And then we had 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.040 Chris and Houston if I remember correctly, and then Gordy 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:44.320 in Waterloo called back using the name Doug from wherever Toronto. Yeah, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.040 and so that threw us off. We had to hang 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:48.640 up on him. Then we had to wait for somebody 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.840 else to come on. Then the guy that came on 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.640 was clueless. I don't know what was going on with 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.960 that guy, but but you're right, Danny, I one thing 0:02:58.000 --> 0:02:59.519 I've picked up. I know, there's a few things I 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.360 picked up with ears, but human nature, I could tell 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:06.359 that guy just was scan in the radio, had no 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.880 idea who I was, had no idea who you were 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.600 the show. He was like, where was he in Boston 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.840 or something like that, I don't know, somewhere somewhere in 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.120 the Northeast. And he he was just like scanning the 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.240 dial and he stumbled on the show and he was bored. 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:24.360 So I knew he didn't have no he had no 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.440 idea of who we were. He never heard password before. 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.040 He just called up because he had some agenda that 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.839 he you know, he wanted to spew a bunch of nonsense. 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.800 So I knew, based on my years of doing this, 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.800 whatever name you say first, most of the time they'll 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.320 pick and if they don't really know the show worked 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.800 out advantage me. Disadvantage. I'm sorry about that. I had 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:51.160 a good move by you for me. Yeah, but but 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.640 you got to play password. You know, you didn't have anybody, 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:55.800 you had a cadaver with you, but you got to 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.840 play password. It was a lot of fun. Yeah, all right. 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.320 And this edition of the Fifth Hour on Saturday, the 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.920 Life of Math or the Life of Danny g and 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.040 some of the stories that you know, for what every reason, 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.000 I don't talk about this on the I don't toot 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:15.120 my own horn on the show. We you know, we're hard, 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.840 oh sports showing and then we just talked to a 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.599 bunch of drunk people around that. But but no, I 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.440 I have some random things that have taken place, and 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.159 so I bring those up here on the Saturday podcast 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.480 and some some seem to enjoy that. And you know, 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.560 we have time for whatever else pops up, we will 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.680 we will see here depending on the time. So we've 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:41.480 got uh, the playground, Arby's, the Arby's so where's the meat? 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:46.480 Owes two fs and the goose Chase and possibly again 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.760 time permitting, we may have you know, pop quiz, which 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:52.479 is what we've done from time to time. So we'll 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.880 see how much time we have left, but I want 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.800 to start now. This was actually a a sad week 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:03.799 for those of us that our fans of radio. Uh. 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.080 And I was gonna do a whole rant on the 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.960 Overnight show. I chose to save it for the podcast. 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:11.800 So this is not really a life of Mallard story. 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:13.599 Kind of is is a little bit of it that 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.359 I don't know that I've shared before. But as a 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:23.400 connoisseur of radio, one of the quirky figures in our 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:27.080 business turned off the mic for the final time. And 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:31.400 we go to Chicago, the Windy City and one of 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:35.040 the great towns, Chicago, and a lot of family in 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.280 Chicago from Chicago moved out to California before I was around, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.839 and I still have family in the Chicago and area. Uh. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.960 That's where the news came from. Danny. So this this 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:52.280 radio talker, legendary radio taco named Les Grobstein, and we 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.839 found out he had passed at the age of of 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.080 sixty nine. He was still working on the air in 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.120 chicag Ago. This guy a Chicago original. You know, we 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:05.719 have Doc Mike that calls the show, and I often 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.440 say that if you cut open Doc Mike, you'll get 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.640 like a deep dish, Chicago pizza or one of those 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.799 Italian sandwiches that they have in Chicago. He's just reeks 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.719 of being Chicago. But so did Less Robsney. And he 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:19.960 was a radio guy covered sports. You know, it's weird. 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.600 He started at age nineteen. I started in radio and 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:24.360 age night you were actually younger day here. How old 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.560 were you when you started, uh, the high school radio station? 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:31.000 I was fourteen? Fourteen? Wow, So I was nineteen when 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.599 I started in in radio right out of high school, 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.000 you know, like the year after that I got into it. 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.080 But this guy started with nineteen. He worked over fifty 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:46.839 years covering Chicago area sports, professional, college, mostly professional the 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:51.240 last you know, forty five years or whatever. And you 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.000 know the fact he started as a kid and all 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:57.160 that stuff. An amazing run and Less Robstey and held 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.599 down the overnight shift at the Score in Cargo, which 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:05.080 is one of those massive signal on terrestrial radio station 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.640 type deals. I mean, we were on the Score in 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:11.560 the early days of Fox Sports Radio, and it was amazing. 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:16.960 The signal went from like Tennessee obviously covered the Upper Midwest, 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:21.640 but it went to Tennessee and then I forget, but 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.440 it was like way out west, like pretty much blanketed 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:30.440 most of the country on six seventy on the AM dial, 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.640 The Score. I think they have an FM now too, 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.280 if I'm not not mistaken. But it was a massive thing, 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.400 massive station for terrestrial radio that boomed all over the place. 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.840 And uh, you know the funny story about that. We 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.280 used to be on The Score on Fox doing the 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:50.160 night programming was on there, Uh, and we got in trouble. 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.640 Doc Mike actually got us in trouble. Um. But the 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.760 big thing was, I don't know if you remember this 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.400 or not, Danny, the Cubby Chubby song, which we'd play 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.800 from time to time. Uh, it was it was it 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.920 was a Chubby Cubby or the Cubby Chubby, which one. 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.480 I think it was the Chubby Cubby. I think that 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.760 was it. I think it was like this. I just 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.360 played it. I've played it for you before when you've 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.280 reminisced over it on the air. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.400 that was the song that got us in trouble for 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:20.120 whatever reason. And there were a few other um mitigating 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.880 factors that played in that We're out of our control. 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:28.400 But this guy, he made like a barbershop quartet cub song. 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:32.000 This is back. It had to be like oh five 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.880 or something. Rememb remember the Cup of the Uh the Bartman. 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.280 Remember Steve Bartman that the kid that messed up the 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:39.520 Cubs were gonna go to the world. I mean it 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.320 was six somewhere in that period of time. I forget 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.040 what they all run together, but it was a Steve 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:50.640 Bartman year and we were on there and the Chubby 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.880 Cubby or the Cubby Chubby whatever it was, we played 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:56.280 that song got in some trouble. But anyway, that's not 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.360 a Cubby Chubby. I just looked it up. Cubby Chubby. 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.400 There you go that it so uh. Think of this 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.960 more like a euloge. You've been like a fun eulogy, 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.000 a tip of the mic, if you will, A blinking 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:14.960 of the on air light to Less Grobstein and one 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:16.800 of the other things. And I wanted to bring this 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.680 up his claim to fame. Danny, do you know what 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:24.360 Less Grobstein did that we have played on our show 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.599 every year since I've been at Fox Sports Radio, we 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.480 played at least once a year. Uh, and many other 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:35.720 radio shows do. Let's Less did something that will obviously 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:41.400 it's outlived him and it will outlive many other people. Uh, 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.720 do you know what he did? Danny? What what? Less 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:47.520 Grobstein has claimed to famous No Less grob glad thanks 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.160 for playing along, Less grow I know you probably. Les 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:54.640 Grobstein was at Wrigley Field in the early nineteen eighties. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:10:01.480 It was April twenty nine. Nine. Happens to coincide that 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:05.080 my birthday. It's not I wasn't born in three, but 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.000 my birthday is on April twenty nine, and I was 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:11.280 gonna kick out of this. So the Cubs were playing 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.280 the Dodgers, which makes it even better. A right Cubs 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.760 and died. You got a sword on one side. Now, 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.760 the Cubs were being managed by Lee Eliot, and they 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.040 were not playing good baseball. They were not playing good baseball. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.360 The crowd was very upset. The Cubs got off to 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.840 a five and fourteen start, and the fans at Wrigley 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.760 were just throwing trash on the Cub players because if 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.840 I remember correctly, the locker room in those days was 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.200 out like in center field or something like that. It 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.880 was like they had to walk out to the to 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:47.079 the clubhouse if I remember anyway, for somebody hadn't walk 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.880 out in the outfield and they were just raining down 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:55.319 like just crap at the ballpark, just like the Cowboys game. Yeah, exactly, 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.680 it was similar. But you know, now everyone freaks out. 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.440 There was no social media in nine three. It was 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.000 you could do whatever you wanted pretty much. It was 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.840 a different world than it is obviously these days, where 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.439 everyone's pearl clutching everything. So then I get to the point, please, 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:13.920 So Les Grobstein was a radio stringer, a job that 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:15.840 I had for many years. Would you just a radio 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:21.320 reporter and that job which doesn't really exist much anymore, 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.520 I think. I mean, I would go to games. I 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.839 would phone in at the top of the hour. I 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.439 would give like a twenty second update. You know, it's 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.360 been Mo'm a Dodger stadium. Blau know it's fourth inning, 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.520 Dodgers lead the Cardinals, you know, five to three, and 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.000 that's it. And uh, and then I'd have to get 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.240 some interviews, and I have to use my tape, my 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:46.360 my Marants tape recorder to go in the locker room 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.360 and do interviews and and then I would feed it 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.480 on the phone back to whoever I was worried for. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.600 And so that's the job that West had. But three, 0:11:56.000 --> 0:12:00.600 he's at the Cup game and Lee Elia chose the 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:05.320 nuclear option. Uh, Danny, he chose the nuclear option. Uh. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:09.319 He was not happy. It was bad time for the Cubs, 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:14.400 bad time for Lee Ilia. And thank god that less 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:19.199 Robstein happened to be there and had his tape recorder 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:24.360 and recorded it for posterity's sake. So to honor less Robstein, 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:28.000 I am now going to play in its entirety no 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.360 bleeps because we're on podcast, right, Danny, we can play 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:39.280 bad words. So let's just enjoy and celebrate the greatest 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.480 piece of audio art in my life to come out 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.720 of a locker room. This is Cubs manager Lee Elia. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.800 We go back in the way back machine, all the 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:52.920 way back to April of n and here is the 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:59.640 Cub manager addressing the Cub fan. Here we go, buckle up. 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.640 I'll tell you one fucking thing. I hope we get 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.640 sucking hotter than ship, just to suck it up them 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.319 three thousand fucking people that show up every fucking day, 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.000 because if they're the real Chicago fucking fans, they can 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.640 kiss my fucking ants right down down and print it 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:25.720 really really behind you around here, my fucking hands. What 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.480 am I supposed to go out there and letting my 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.960 fucking players get destroyed every day and be quiet about it. 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.559 For the fucking nickel dyone people to show up. The 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.400 motherfucker's don't even work. That's why they're out of the 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.520 fucking game. They're only go out and get a fucking 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.319 job and find out what it's like to go out 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.480 there in a fucking living ay. But to say of 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.040 the fucking world work it. The other fifth didn't come 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:53.320 out here the fucking playground for the cot suckers hip 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.960 some motherfucker's hip them. Cut the cocksuckers what the fucking 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:02.640 players got busting their fucking ass, and the sucking people bow, 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:08.640 And that's become my fucking ant. They talk about the 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:12.160 great fucking support that the players get around here. I 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.800 haven't seen it this fucking yet. The name of the 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.240 game has hit the ball, catch the ball, and get 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:21.960 the fucking job done. Right now, we have more launchers 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.560 than we have wins. So fucking changes that have happened 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.160 in a couple organization are multi fold, all right, They 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:34.800 don't show because we're five and fourteen. Unfortunately, that's the 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:39.440 criteria of them. Some fifteen motherfucking percent to come out 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:45.280 to date baseball. The other eight earning a living take 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.960 more than a five and thirteen or five and fourteen 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:52.800 to destroying the makeup of this club. I guarante see 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.040 you that there's some fucking pros out there that want 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:59.280 to fucking play this game, but you're stuck in a 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:03.480 fucking mother fucking Dodgers and the Fillies and the Cardinals 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:08.840 and all that cheap ship. All these mother fucking editorials 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:13.080 about say and fucking uh, the Telliitis and all I 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:18.440 said that they'd sickening. It's unbelievable. It really, it's a 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:22.400 disheartening fucking situation we're in right now. Five and fourteen 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:28.920 doesn't negate all that work. Hundred forty three fucking games left. 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.640 Who I'm trying to say it, don't rip them fucking 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:36.320 guys out there, Rip me. Do you want to rip somebody? 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.480 Rip my fucking head. But don't rip them fucking guys 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:43.080 because they're given everything they can give. But once we 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.920 hit that fucking groove, it'll flow, and it will flow 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.960 the talents there. I don't want to make any clarantry. 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.840 I'm frustrated. I'll guarantee I'm frustrated. It would be different 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.560 if I walked in this room every day at eight 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.680 starting and saw a bunch of guys. It didn't give 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:06.800 a shop ship all right. That was the the full lead, 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.320 Hell you're ran. He actually kind of calmed down towards 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.680 the end the first the first minute of that. Oh 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:18.040 my god, Yeah, unbelievable. That that is Michelangelo. That is 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.760 the Mona Lisa. That is uh, that is insane. That 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.680 the rant of the world's work in the other come 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.760 out here. It's a playground for the blank blank. Oh 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.560 my god, he said, it's a playground for the cocksuckers. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:35.240 Oh man. Now I remember playing that several times on 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:39.880 the Ben Mallard Show throughout the years. Obviously tons of leaps. 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:44.560 I've never heard it unedited before. That was amazing. Uh, 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:49.760 it's awesome, And almost forty years later, it still is 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.560 the gold standard for a RAM. People talk about Dennis 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.240 Green or Losorda had a bunch back in the day 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:01.520 and just just amazing, just absolute, really great. And Lee 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:05.040 Elia is still alive. He's in his mid eighties now 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:07.879 and he's still around. And the other thing about that 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:11.439 he did not get fired right away as the cup manager. Today, 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.000 in modern times, if you did what Lee you did, 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.240 you'd be fired immediately because of social media and all that, 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.040 and that people would be upset. But Lee, really I 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.760 believe he lasted another I have to go back and check, 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.159 but I think it was like a couple of months 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:29.680 or maybe even longer before kept saying five and fourteen, 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.480 So they waited until he was what five and thirty 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:36.119 one before they fired. Yeah, it's something like that, and 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:37.879 and and so the other part of the story. Now 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:40.320 for the rest of the stories, The great late Paul 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.720 Harvey would say radio legend from a different era. So 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.560 I actually had the chance to meet Less Grobstey and 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:50.120 the guy that just passed away that did record that audio. 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.560 And it was years ago. Was that the NBA Finals 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.320 in Indianapolis? That gives you the year the Pacers were 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.720 in the NBA Finals. I happened to be there and 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.720 and I actually have a mutual friend with Less, the 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.680 late Joe McDonald who was a Titan in Los Angeles 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.000 Radio and Afternoon Drift kind of like the Mike Francessa 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:14.320 of l A Radio and you know, control the airways 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.639 for a long time and new Less anyway, I ran 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.800 into Less at I think it was called the Concico 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.000 Field house at that time. It's got some new name. Now. 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:26.399 The pacers were playing, and we chatted for a few minutes, 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.960 and the rafters of the of the gymnasium there and 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.439 I I believe it's like wife either worked in an 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.480 airline or had some some connection to an airline, because 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:40.280 he traveled a lot. And he was very polite. Les 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:45.720 Grobsteen a little shy, true radio introvert, and there's a 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.520 lot of radio guys that I'm an introvert. Less was 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:52.000 it's two introverts. I was being less And I told 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.280 him I appreciated the lee O your thing. He's probably 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:55.600 heard it eight you know, at that time he'd probably 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.959 heard eight thousand times. And we chatted a little bit. 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:02.600 And I've heard the same thing about lee Elia that 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:06.960 I heard about Losorda, that the that rant which we played, 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:10.240 which was just absolutely amazing, that there were actually some 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.960 other rants that were as good or better that we're 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.360 not recorded. And I've heard the same thing about Losorda, 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:21.520 that the Kingman's performance in kirk Bavakwa and and the 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.240 rants that have been recorded for the sorta like there 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.480 were other rants where it was just the sports writers 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:30.159 and nobody was recording it, and those were We're awesome 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:34.520 also so uh and rest in peace. Uh the as 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:36.960 you cross over those pearly gates that are Les Robstein 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:41.520 And what a what a amazing running radio I was working. 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.800 It was still overnights at age sixty nine, still working crazy, 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.840 that's awesome. I mean when you're seventy, I hope your 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.719 show is still running. My god, if I was, if 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.560 I was at seventy, how many years oh, my god, 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:59.239 like fifty years on on Fox Sports Radio at that point. Well, 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.600 knowing you in the way you like to save money, 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.760 you'll probably still be on at seventies. Well, the good 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.760 news is, Danny, that the company is paying me enough. 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:10.520 We're I'll probably need to be on until I'm seventies. 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.119 So I just want to thank them for that. The 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:17.240 motivation to continue to work, Danny, it's it's outstaying. So 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:22.680 now I understand we talked last week somehow Arby's came up. Yeah, 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:27.320 in the conversation, and you had said that you were 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:31.240 going to try to find and Arby's near you, the 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:34.280 home of Where's the Beef for? What? What was their slogan? 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:38.600 What is the we we have the meats or the meats. Yeah, 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.040 not the beef. The meats. Back in the day when 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:45.320 we were kids, Wendy's used to say, where's the beef? Yes, yes, 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.000 they had that old woman and she had the disappointed 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:49.800 look on her face looking at the bun and all 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:51.840 that stuff. So when you think of Arby's, you think 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:56.080 of the like the classic roast beef, the curly fries, that, 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:57.639 but they have a lot of other stuff on their 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:00.480 menu these days. So you you found how far away 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:03.720 was the Army's from your house? About a ten minute drive. 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:07.120 When we talked last week on the podcast, I said 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.760 that I was convinced that they were like a storefront 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:15.200 for a big drug dealer in because I didn't know 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:18.760 anybody that ate there, and I hadn't eaten there since 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.440 the late nineties, a couple of decades at least. So 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:25.440 I got my tender Roni, who was not a fast 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:28.920 food fan either, is my wife. She didn't like fast food. 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:31.240 What is it with these women not liking fast food? 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:33.760 I mean, my god, well, yeah, I couldn't eat it 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:36.840 every day, dive to time like I my my my 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.960 go to my guilty pleasure if you will, is I 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:44.160 love like raising Kanes I'll go to Raising that's fast food. 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:47.080 Oh yeah, that's about it. I like. I like Raising 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:50.040 Kanes too. You're the reason why I've eaten there. Um, 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:54.520 you know, but like the junk food of fast food restaurants. 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.440 So you can't really eat that stuff every day? Well 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:01.879 maybe coope? Can we all know you today? But all right, 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:03.800 so I stay away from it. It's a treat to 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:07.600 go to fast food restaurants. So I told my tenderoni, look, 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:10.440 it's show research. We gotta go check this out and 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:14.000 take some pictures. We took her daughter doesn't get a 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:16.360 lot of it, but knows what's good and what's bad. 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:19.159 So I'm like, I'm a rating from you. We founded 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:23.280 on Thousand Oaks Boulevard. It looked like this Arby's was 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:26.320 straight out of the nineties. The tables that we sat 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:30.959 down at had not been cleaned since n That's unfortunate. 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:33.440 That is that is that's not what you're looking for. 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:37.200 It wasn't a good start. But luckily in our car 0:22:37.359 --> 0:22:40.080 we have a pack of the Lysol wipes. Well, is 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:43.000 it someone there like hit you hit like a buzzer 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:46.399 supposed somebody supposed to come over like clean it up 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:48.960 or something that like most fast food restaurants, it's like 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:52.639 one person clean stuff up, right, maybe pre COVID, but 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:56.640 now during the past couple of years, the ex uses. Oh, 0:22:56.920 --> 0:23:00.520 because of COVID, we can't clean tables and we can't 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:03.080 have an employee doing any of that. So there was 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:08.080 no employee walking around cleaning anything or servicing the customers 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:11.560 inside where the tables were. Outside where the tables were, 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:15.560 we we cleaned the table ourselves. And this black cook 0:23:15.760 --> 0:23:18.600 is all over the lysol whites. I mean it literally 0:23:19.080 --> 0:23:23.919 had not been cleaned in years. So we're like, okay, 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:26.199 but you know a lot of people were just there 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:28.359 was a lot of foot traffic though, people were taking 0:23:28.400 --> 0:23:31.120