Speaker 1: Kabooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the.
Speaker 3: Air everywhere, and a very good Friday, as Rick and
Speaker 3: Maryland would say, morning time on the Fifth Hour with me,
Speaker 3: Big Ben and Danny g Radio, who is away on assignment.
Speaker 4: As we have slid into the ninth day of August. Congratulations.
Speaker 4: If you're a fan of books, today's a big day.
Speaker 4: It's National book Lover's Day. There are some people that
Speaker 4: would much rather hold than old dust s muskie book
Speaker 4: then get online and read on their tablet. And my
Speaker 4: mom was like that. She loved books. Now she did
Speaker 4: eventually start reading on the tablet, but the book was
Speaker 4: the way to go for Mamu back in the day.
Speaker 1: But we were hanging out with you say brand new weekend.
Speaker 4: You know that when the extra crutchy, extra spicy Fifth
Speaker 4: Hour comes up.
Speaker 1: And we're doing this very early. That's one of the reasons.
Speaker 4: Danny is not here and I'm doing this from the
Speaker 4: East Coast this morning.
Speaker 1: It is early, early in the morning, way too early
Speaker 1: to be awake as someone who is used to the
Speaker 1: West Coast time zone and all that. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just a giant ball here, just a giant ball.
Speaker 4: I'll explain why I'm doing the podcast I'm here and
Speaker 4: how that might relate to you coming up in a
Speaker 4: little bit, but we must before we get into all
Speaker 4: of that, we must start back. Last Saturday, the third
Speaker 4: day of August, Tom Brady's birthday. We celebrated Tom Brady's
Speaker 4: birthday by all uniting is Won hanging out in Lost Wages, Nevada.
Speaker 4: The first ever official official Malor meet and greet in
Speaker 4: Sin City as we all united to form Voltron. It
Speaker 4: happened at the Steakeout Bar and Grill. We talked a
Speaker 4: lot about it in the lead up to this podcast.
Speaker 4: I want to thank you for putting up with all
Speaker 4: of that, and we were there. It was It was
Speaker 4: a wonderful weekend. This is the official post game show
Speaker 4: on the twenty twenty four Malor meet and greet. As
Speaker 4: we had quite the crowd. We didn't know who was
Speaker 4: going to show up. A lot of people had said
Speaker 4: they were going to be there. People had sent me
Speaker 4: the emails said Hey, I'm going to fly in from
Speaker 4: so and so and Tim Buck too and Walla Walla,
Speaker 4: Washington and all these other places. But ultimately most of
Speaker 4: the people that said they were going to show up,
Speaker 4: you know who you are who reached out to me,
Speaker 4: you did, and so thank you. A tip of the
Speaker 4: headphones to you. I appreciate it, appreciated, appreciate. We put
Speaker 4: a bunch of photos up. Hopefully you saw those. I
Speaker 4: posted a few on Sunday. I did not have as
Speaker 4: many photos as I should have had. I was taking
Speaker 4: a lot of pictures or whatever and hang out with
Speaker 4: people fans of the show, but I wasn't like taking
Speaker 4: photos with everyone. Bad job by me. But we had
Speaker 4: a great time. Vegas was it was very cool. I
Speaker 4: think it was one hundred and ninety degrees the days
Speaker 4: we were there. I got in on Friday driving from
Speaker 4: LA and we had a carpool situation through the desert.
Speaker 4: The hottest point actually on the way to Vegas was
Speaker 4: in Baker California, which is the appropriately named town where
Speaker 4: it literally bakes. But got up early, did not get
Speaker 4: a lot of sleep, just got in the car and
Speaker 4: took off. Because the way this works, if you're not familiar,
Speaker 4: if you're not in the area, to drive from La
Speaker 4: to Vegas, it's like a suber right.
Speaker 1: People do it all the time.
Speaker 4: There's a bunch of little desert towns out in California
Speaker 4: and in Nevada before you get to Vegas. The problem
Speaker 4: is most people drive to Vegas. They don't fly there.
Speaker 4: It's easier to drive. You have your car, although it's
Speaker 4: more expensive now because you've got paper parking all over Vegas.
Speaker 4: Because the mob that used to run Vegas would give
Speaker 4: free parking and free meals.
Speaker 1: They're not as generous anymore. So.
Speaker 4: Nonetheless, you'd rather have your car and be able to
Speaker 4: go where you want and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Most people choose to do that.
Speaker 4: But if you don't get out before a certain hour,
Speaker 4: if you don't get out of the La metropolitan area
Speaker 4: before a certain hour, it is a nightmare.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: Fortunately there were no trucks that tipped over with lithium
Speaker 4: batteries in Barstow, which is about the midway point to Vegas,
Speaker 4: as we did have that happen the week prior. We
Speaker 4: talked about that a little bit on this podcast, that
Speaker 4: there was an accident. I think we mentioned our old
Speaker 4: radio friend Fox Sports Radio alumni member JT. The Brick
Speaker 4: had some issues out there because the highway was completely
Speaker 4: closed and so a bunch of people were staying at
Speaker 4: hotels in the middle of the desert. So we didn't
Speaker 4: have any of that, and it was rather smooth. There
Speaker 4: was one patch of traffic which was in the Victorville
Speaker 4: area in the California desert out there, but we dodged
Speaker 4: that wasn't too bad, got in at a reasonable hour
Speaker 4: into Vegas, and I did not stay at a hotel
Speaker 4: this trip, did not no hotels, no resort fees of
Speaker 4: a friend that lives in Henderson, which is a suburb
Speaker 4: of Vegas, and we were able to stay at his
Speaker 4: sister's place. She was out of town for work, so
Speaker 4: we stayed there and had a great time. It was
Speaker 4: a little warm, everywhere, a little hot, but we had
Speaker 4: a great time. We made it work and went out
Speaker 4: to my wife was with me and went to the
Speaker 4: favorite in place we have in Vegas. Had some fetichini, alfredo,
Speaker 4: a little chicken palm, and we're just living, living the life.
Speaker 4: We actually went to a tiki bar again. The wife
Speaker 4: wanted to go to a tiki bar, so we went
Speaker 4: to a tiki bar and got the drink on. And
Speaker 4: when you go to a tiki bar in Vegas, it's
Speaker 4: quite the experience there because you get out of the sun.
Speaker 1: It is boiling hot. It's like one hundred and eleven.
Speaker 4: And then you go inside to complete in total darkness,
Speaker 4: and it takes about ten minutes. It takes about ten
Speaker 4: minutes for your eyes to adjust. It is it is agony,
Speaker 4: is what it is until your eyes ad just you.
Speaker 4: You're walking around, futzing around on my phone out with
Speaker 4: my light on my phone, trying to see where there's
Speaker 4: a step and all that and hanging out. And then
Speaker 4: I got I was getting messages from random people, Hey
Speaker 4: there's a there's a no not going on with I
Speaker 4: ain't playing unless I get mine brawl that whole dope.
Speaker 4: So then I flipped that on my phone and I'm
Speaker 4: sitting in a tiki bar in Vegas drinking cocktails and
Speaker 4: then we're watching the Giants Reds game on the TV.
Speaker 4: Now of course, I was hoping that the Reds would
Speaker 4: get a hit, but that did not happen, and so
Speaker 4: the evil Higant's Blake Snell got a no hitter on
Speaker 4: that Friday. But whatever, I didn't care. I didn't have
Speaker 4: to do a monolog. We did talk about it a
Speaker 4: little bit, if you remember.
Speaker 1: The Sunday into Monday.
Speaker 4: I brought the story back because it still had some
Speaker 4: legs for our show. And this has been such a
Speaker 4: storyline that we followed along, and so I bring it up.
Speaker 4: So I did that, and then on Saturday it was
Speaker 4: go time.
Speaker 1: It was go time. On Saturday. It was the day
Speaker 1: of the Malla Meet and greet, so got up.
Speaker 4: Actually had to get an oil change for the Malamobile
Speaker 4: going through the desert, up the hills and down the
Speaker 4: hills and all that going into Nevada, and so the
Speaker 4: oil light came on. We went out and got the
Speaker 4: oil change. Very exciting to sit in your car and
Speaker 4: get the oil change.
Speaker 1: There. We did not have the proper tools to change
Speaker 1: the oil.
Speaker 4: So we got changed and sit outside on a nice
Speaker 4: one hundred and two degree day, actually was hotter than that,
Speaker 4: but that.
Speaker 1: Time of the morning we went out in the morning,
Speaker 1: it's pretty hot.
Speaker 4: Went to a great barbecue place, the Mallard Travel Lodge,
Speaker 4: in effect, went to enjoy some fabulous, fabulous barbecue, having
Speaker 4: an amazing time enjoying the heck out of ourselves at
Speaker 4: this is over at Henderson Big Be's Texas Barbecue.
Speaker 1: And this is now back to back weeks.
Speaker 4: I mentioned last week on the podcast Atdie Casino in
Speaker 4: southern California, Yamava had amazing barbecue. Well this was next level.
Speaker 4: Also brisket chef's kiss amazing. Now it could be that
Speaker 4: I've just been fasting a lot lately and that's part
Speaker 4: of the issue, right, could be I just I was
Speaker 4: fasting tons and tons and that led into what happened.
Speaker 4: But either way, amazing culinary delight there. I will be
Speaker 4: back at that particular establishment. And then I went back,
Speaker 4: got ready for the Malor meet and greet, and there.
Speaker 1: Was a little travel.
Speaker 4: I showed up a few minutes after, but Eddie had
Speaker 4: texted me said hey, we're all upstairs. So I went
Speaker 4: to the Stakeout Bar and Grill as advertised on Maryland Parkway,
Speaker 4: just across from UNLV. There's actually a raising Caynes off
Speaker 4: to the side. There I did not know that when
Speaker 4: we booked the event. I did not book it. I
Speaker 4: did want to thank Slug. What a great guy. Slugs
Speaker 4: amazing host. He's the guy that did the legwork on this.
Speaker 4: He put the venue together with the help of his
Speaker 4: friend who happened to be a fan of the show,
Speaker 4: and we had karaoke at this thing. We had a
Speaker 4: special menu. Hopefully you saw that on the social media
Speaker 4: for the Malor Meet and Greed and I was like, WHOA,
Speaker 4: I didn't know about that. Yeah, we had mallard chicken fingers.
Speaker 1: You didn't see the menu. For those of you who
Speaker 1: are ap blind, we had the mallard.
Speaker 4: Chicken fingers, very affordable, cheaper than you could get at
Speaker 4: any other restaurant. The Big Ben, a thirty two ounce beer,
Speaker 4: of course, gotta be the Big Ben. You had import
Speaker 4: domestic on that. Also the Koopa Loopa Tina. I don't
Speaker 4: even know what that was, but that was eight dollars.
Speaker 4: The Eddie Garcia Rita. See there's some rhyming going on here.
Speaker 4: That was also eight dollars. The Loraina she got her
Speaker 4: own drink that was also eight and then Slug because
Speaker 4: he slugged, he had Slug juice, and we're not sure
Speaker 4: what that was, but it I think it was Jamison.
Speaker 4: I think as there's some chambers in that. But that
Speaker 4: was nine dollars. So those were the different items. They had,
Speaker 4: small menu, but awesome. They had the show logo on
Speaker 4: it and made me smile when I walked in there.
Speaker 1: All right, I want my chicken.
Speaker 4: It was great now to kind of paint the picture here.
Speaker 4: When I showed up, Yeah, there were a few people there,
Speaker 4: you know. I was just kind of getting started. And
Speaker 4: as the night progressed and we were there for a
Speaker 4: few hours, the place filled up. We had a lot
Speaker 4: of people with listeners that came in from Knoxville, Tennessee,
Speaker 4: since Cinnati the greater Cincinnati area. We had a contingent
Speaker 4: of callers from northern California. Had a gentleman fly in
Speaker 4: from Denver, Dallas more on that coming up. We had
Speaker 4: a gentleman joke down with his wife from Reno, a
Speaker 4: bunch of people from La a lot of locals in
Speaker 4: Vegas that live in the suburbs or whatever, and they
Speaker 4: were coming out and hang out with us. But it
Speaker 4: was great to see everybody at a wonderful time. Surfer
Speaker 4: Todd the comedian was there with his wife, Surf for
Speaker 4: Todd had a giant trophy the size of the theater.
Speaker 1: There that rounded theater there in Vegas.
Speaker 4: It was a massive and that was for the Malord
Speaker 4: Paluza win as the joke writer of the Year and
Speaker 4: they had these wild outfits on and as you would expect,
Speaker 4: Surfer Todd the comedian putting on a show. So that
Speaker 4: was awesome. My man JT, the wingman, he flew in
Speaker 4: for the day, I guess the day before he flew in.
Speaker 4: We flew from Knoxville, Tennessee, and JT has the current
Speaker 4: record for most consecutive Mallor meet and greets, as he
Speaker 4: was at the one we did in Minnesota at the Mermaid.
Speaker 1: He's from that area. He moved to Knoxville.
Speaker 4: And then a few months back we had a hybrid
Speaker 4: Mallard meet and greet in Charleston and JT was there.
Speaker 4: He lives in Knoxville, so he just drove over for
Speaker 4: the day and hung out with us in all the
Speaker 4: great listeners below the Mason Dixon line in Charleston. So
Speaker 4: it was great to ce JT again. He's become a
Speaker 4: regular now and I guess wherever we go.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be there. Right if we could have one
Speaker 1: of these in Abu Dabi and they'd be like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll be there. And it was. It was great.
Speaker 4: And then we had a guy flew in from from well,
Speaker 4: he flew in from Ohio, outside Cincinnati, and he was
Speaker 4: grumbling that the airport in Cincinnati is in Kentucky, the
Speaker 4: regional big airport there, which is of course.
Speaker 1: We all know that. If anybody's flown into Cincinnati knows that.
Speaker 4: And this is where the conversation would go back in
Speaker 4: the day when I flew into Cincinnati for you know,
Speaker 4: changing planes or whatever at the Cincinnati International Airport, which
Speaker 4: is technically in Kentucky, and we would go back and
Speaker 4: forth because that is to me, the point of where
Speaker 4: the South begins. So I would say, well, Cincinnati is
Speaker 4: a southern city. And then people from Cincinnati would spit
Speaker 4: Loogi's in my face and said, you don't know what
Speaker 4: you're talking about, You're a dope.
Speaker 1: You're a loser, and all that.
Speaker 4: But it was it was KGB was there from the
Speaker 4: Bay Area, who's who's a podcast listener now, and and
Speaker 4: he was hanging out and it was.
Speaker 1: Good to see him.
Speaker 4: We had I didn't write down everyone's name, and I'm
Speaker 4: really bad with names, so if I forget your name,
Speaker 4: I apologize. We had several theme shirts from fans of
Speaker 4: the show that had shirts made, which was great and
Speaker 4: just just loved it. It was flattered with a Malard
Speaker 4: Militia shirt. Now recket. Ralph was in the building, the
Speaker 4: great record Ralph. Remember Ralph Irvant retired? Now yeah, uh,
Speaker 4: And and Ralph with a guy that he went to
Speaker 4: school with, one of his buddies and his wife, big
Speaker 4: fan of the show. They came down from Reno to
Speaker 4: hang out with us and have a day in Vegas,
Speaker 4: and and so that was. It was great. His buddy
Speaker 4: wore a Maland Militaire, which must have really annoyed Ralph.
Speaker 4: It must have really annoyed Ralph, like what is up
Speaker 4: with that? You know this is a moral enemy.
Speaker 1: But Ralph was cool. It was great.
Speaker 4: He loves Vegas. He showed me his pool. He's got
Speaker 4: a massive pool. He's doing well in life. The great
Speaker 4: Ralph Irvin who famously, if you remember, a couple of
Speaker 4: years back, Ralph got into it with Justin in Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: Justin was calling up talking all kinds of nonsense, which
Speaker 4: he never does. He usually hides behind X or Twitter
Speaker 4: or whatever. But he called up and was really annoying
Speaker 4: wreck at Ralph to the point where I think, I
Speaker 4: think a holiday weekend if I remember, because Eddie wasn't
Speaker 4: there and Ralph was doing the news updates and Ralph
Speaker 4: stormed in from the other room in the old studio.
Speaker 4: He walked out of his studio, he walked through this
Speaker 4: giant bank vault door.
Speaker 1: He made a right turn.
Speaker 4: He then took a few steps, made a left turn
Speaker 4: through another bank vault door, and then on a rampage.
Speaker 4: He walks over to the producer's table where the phone
Speaker 4: screener system is and is trying to hang up on
Speaker 4: Justin and Cincinnati. However, for some reason, he just he
Speaker 4: couldn't quite figure it out. He thought he had hung
Speaker 4: up on him. So then he just starts trying to
Speaker 4: hang up on everybody. He's going scorched earthier. He wants
Speaker 4: no one online. He's like excay use me, you know,
Speaker 4: and he's like wow. When Ralph gets going, the ground trembles.
Speaker 4: So anyway, it was great to see Ralph. He was
Speaker 4: there hanging out and his friends were very nice people,
Speaker 4: good people, big fans of the show.
Speaker 1: Was awesome.
Speaker 4: Hopefully they enjoyed their weekend in Vegas and had a
Speaker 4: good time with all that. And then we had Supermarket
Speaker 4: Steve and his lovely wife there hanging out. They both
Speaker 4: had matching shirts show them shirts that they were wearing
Speaker 4: that had my mug on it and I used to
Speaker 4: be four hundred and eighty pounds and now look at
Speaker 4: me now and I.
Speaker 1: Don't eat and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was hilarious. Eddie.
Speaker 4: I think Eddie took some photos of that. I don't
Speaker 4: even know that I got any photos of them. I
Speaker 4: don't think I did. I don't think I got photos
Speaker 4: of them. I'd have to go back and check. It's
Speaker 4: been a few days since since the whole event and
Speaker 4: all that went down and posting fig pictures and whatnot.
Speaker 4: But Supermarket Steve, who seemed a little upset that he
Speaker 4: has been a show contributor for many, many years. Supermarket
Speaker 4: Steve has reached out to us on many a night
Speaker 4: via social media or whatever, and he's given us content.
Speaker 4: The thing that he's known for though, And I told him,
Speaker 4: I said, listen, I traveled around, I've done these things
Speaker 4: around the country. The thing people bring up is your advice,
Speaker 4: your wisdom on how to properly handle the shopping cart
Speaker 4: shopping cart etiquette, which I have followed. And Supermarket Steve,
Speaker 4: he's the guy that came up with the planes, said
Speaker 4: Listen Mallet.
Speaker 1: He says, let me tell you something.
Speaker 4: Okay, when you're at the grocery store, you don't put
Speaker 4: the shopping cart back, because that's taking someone's job. And
Speaker 4: so that launched what has been a multi year, multi
Speaker 4: pronged campaign by the show to point out that when
Speaker 4: you are putting shopping carts away when you go to
Speaker 4: the grocery store, you're actually hurting the business of shopping
Speaker 4: or you're you're taking someone's job away, as what I'm
Speaker 4: trying to say, right, And so we did this. Of course,
Speaker 4: people are very passionate about that. They're more passionate about
Speaker 4: that my takes about the NBA or any along those lines.
Speaker 4: And so, needless to say, it was quite the ordeal there.
Speaker 4: But Supermarket seems like, Listen, there's all this stuff that
Speaker 4: I've done here. You know, he's pointing out some of
Speaker 4: the other things he's done in his body of work
Speaker 4: on the show. But very nice to see him and
Speaker 4: his wife. They did I think patch things up with
Speaker 4: the rain, Yeah, but I'm not sure. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: And the Lorena was there. She was hanging out with Eddie.
Speaker 1: We were all there. If you missed at Eddie Coop.
Speaker 4: Everyone was in the building and we were all bouncing
Speaker 4: around and all that. What else, Well, there were a
Speaker 4: couple of other things I wanted to mention. We had Salsa,
Speaker 4: the famous Salsa who's been a long time caller to
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 1: He works for the airlines.
Speaker 4: He gives travel tips and whatnot from time to time,
Speaker 4: and he asked Loraina for advice on relationships. So I
Speaker 4: had met Salsa many many years ago at one of
Speaker 4: these Mallard meet and greet things we did, and I
Speaker 4: had not seen him. You know, he calls up, that's it,
Speaker 4: And he'd mentioned the other day if you remember when
Speaker 4: he called the Overnight show, I guess spend almost two weeks.
Speaker 4: But he said, hey, I'm want to be there. I'm
Speaker 4: trying to be there. I'm going to be there. You know,
Speaker 4: We're going back and forth. And he said, yeah, I
Speaker 4: have a much different look. But I didn't think anything
Speaker 4: of it. He's like all right, whatever, it changed a
Speaker 4: little bit. Maybe he's got a beer belly now or
Speaker 4: something like that. I was like, that's and people get older.
Speaker 4: It happens.
Speaker 1: And he's around my age, he's a little older than
Speaker 1: I am. So I'm there and.
Speaker 4: I'm chatting with one of the listeners, one of the
Speaker 4: fellas who came in from the barry, who was at
Speaker 4: the mallor meet and greet we did in Socow, the
Speaker 4: last not the one in Andy the comic book's place,
Speaker 4: but the one prior to that that we did where
Speaker 4: Eddie found a venue kind of like midway through between
Speaker 4: la and Orange County.
Speaker 1: So that one.
Speaker 4: So I was catching up with him, and then at
Speaker 4: the end of it, I introduced myself to this person
Speaker 4: who was sitting at the table who wasn't saying anything,
Speaker 4: she kind of observing. I was like, I had one
Speaker 4: of those OMG molments, because right there in front of
Speaker 4: me a man that had a full head of hair,
Speaker 4: he had glasses and a beard and nothing like I
Speaker 4: remember was the famous sauce in unbelievable shape, built like
Speaker 4: a Donnis, tremendous shape. Look like he's twenty years younger,
Speaker 4: at least twenty years younger than his actual age. I
Speaker 4: was blown away. You ever had that happen where you know?
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know Salsa that well. I've just
Speaker 4: met him at fan events, you know, people that are
Speaker 4: part of the show, and we all get together and
Speaker 4: break bread and hang out and all that stuff. And
Speaker 4: so Salsa, I mean, I knew what he looked like.
Speaker 4: I remembered him, and he's a fun guy. I'm really
Speaker 4: happy that he likes what we do here and we're
Speaker 4: friends on the show and whatnot. And but I could
Speaker 4: not believe. Normally, if you shave your head, like listen,
Speaker 4: I wear hats, that's my move. My hair started thinning.
Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, let's wear hats. But Salsa he
Speaker 4: had a shaved head, but it was by choice one day.
Speaker 4: Effective Immediately, Salsa's like, all right, you know what I'm
Speaker 4: gonna do. I'm just gonna grow my hair out and
Speaker 4: then I'm gonna out of beard. And Toda like wow,
Speaker 4: that is unbelievable wild. It's like like Samer or something
Speaker 4: like that. The pair the hair is the superpower. So
Speaker 4: that was that was pretty cool. One of the one
Speaker 4: of the guys came up to me. He was there
Speaker 4: with his son, and he had suffered from a heart
Speaker 4: attack like cardiac Stanley. And he said he found our
Speaker 4: show by listening while he was recovering, and we kind
Speaker 4: of helped him get through that, which was pretty cool. Oh,
Speaker 4: I want to go back to rerecket Rouse's friend from
Speaker 4: Reno who came down with his wife. He told the
Speaker 4: crazy story which made me feel pretty old. He and
Speaker 4: his wife, so.
Speaker 1: They had a son that was born prematurely. Right, it
Speaker 1: was very scary thing.
Speaker 4: Right, You're like, oh man, it's uh Nick, and it's
Speaker 4: it's just gonna be on guard, right, You're I mean,
Speaker 4: it's a life here. You got to do a lot
Speaker 4: of things differently when you have a premature baby. And
Speaker 4: so they they they're telling me they had to bring
Speaker 4: the they brought the kid home. It was barely over
Speaker 4: the limit required you could take the kid home. And
Speaker 4: I remember the story he was saying. They had to
Speaker 4: feed the kid, their son every couple of hours. Otherwise
Speaker 4: that's it, you know, I mean, you got to take
Speaker 4: care of the kid. It's all over. So he had
Speaker 4: the night shift and he would listen to our show
Speaker 4: while he was taking care of his duties. His fatherly
Speaker 4: duties and to this day still listens eighteen years ago.
Speaker 4: The kid is now all grown up, an adult at
Speaker 4: eighteen and is likely going to play I think the cross.
Speaker 4: I believe that's the sport in Utah, in Salt Lake.
Speaker 4: And so that's awesome. How great is that? Remember that
Speaker 4: that story. We had a cab driver that came up
Speaker 4: from Vegas. But you know how certain people just look
Speaker 4: perfect for the job. This guy and he's from Boston,
Speaker 4: but he's been in Vegas cab driver for a while,
Speaker 4: and this guy just looked like a cab driver is
Speaker 4: supposed to look, not an uber driver. I'm talking old school,
Speaker 4: a yellow cab, right. He had he wore the Boston
Speaker 4: Bruins shirt for Eddie, but it had to be so
Speaker 4: I was like, hey, you know that's my that's really
Speaker 4: for me. You know that's my shirt because it's a
Speaker 4: bee for Ben and all bees are my bees.
Speaker 1: So I took credit for that.
Speaker 4: So but I was catching up with him and he
Speaker 4: was telling stories about Boston and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But he just had that look.
Speaker 4: It was perfect, like the guy had seen and done
Speaker 4: some things right. He had been out there driving people around,
Speaker 4: exploring all avenues of Vegas and the good, the bad,
Speaker 4: and the ugly. And he wasn't just coloring inside the lines,
Speaker 4: is covering coloring outside the lines as well.
Speaker 1: So it was interesting to say the least.
Speaker 4: But it was very nice to see him, and he
Speaker 4: was he was actually on the job and he stopped
Speaker 4: by because he's a fan of show and he wanted
Speaker 4: to say hello before he had to get back out
Speaker 4: and make some more money, make that cash. Some people
Speaker 4: wondering whether Blind Scott was going to be there. He
Speaker 4: said he was thinking about going, but he did not
Speaker 4: show up, so Blind Scott did not see Scott.
Speaker 1: He was not there again.
Speaker 4: I mean, there were so many people. I didn't want
Speaker 4: to mention Rob, the famous man who left to go
Speaker 4: to Michigan. They came back to Vegas, the man that
Speaker 4: plays poker all night, Rob professional poker player, but he
Speaker 4: was there.
Speaker 1: We also we had several guys that.
Speaker 4: Played poker at a guy decked out in padre gear
Speaker 4: who kept trying to buy me drinks and stuff. He
Speaker 4: was there, so it was good to see him. But
Speaker 4: that man, as the whole the whole event was was awesome.
Speaker 4: Mike from Vegas, that was the guy that really blew
Speaker 4: me away, Mike from Vegas. So Mike's called to show
Speaker 4: up several times and told these wild stories. Wild and
Speaker 4: I would put Mike in Vegas in the class of
Speaker 4: Doc Mike Surf for Todd the comedie weed Man, Hippie
Speaker 4: in Miami, Wayne from Southee for those that attended the
Speaker 4: Malamet we did it the Cask and Flagging in Boston,
Speaker 4: Wayne from Southee. So Mike in Vegas has called up
Speaker 4: a few times over the years. He told us that
Speaker 4: he got arrested for going into the Bellagio Fountain on
Speaker 4: multiple occasions. Right, so he told that story. He's like, okay, fine,
Speaker 4: the guy's telling us stories. He also told the story
Speaker 4: about getting dinged and he got stuck. He was climbing
Speaker 4: a fence, his pants got caught and he was hanging
Speaker 4: upside down for like several hours.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that call?
Speaker 4: So whatever, and the guy called Mike in Vegas called
Speaker 4: up and he said I'm gonna be there.
Speaker 1: You know, And I was like, oh, yeah, sure whatever,
Speaker 1: I said, You're not going to show up. Sure enough,
Speaker 1: he showed up.
Speaker 4: And that act that he has on the race that
Speaker 4: was authentic, that was not fake, that was not No,
Speaker 4: that was legit.
Speaker 1: That was that was un real. He is, he's got
Speaker 1: a lot of issues, Mike.
Speaker 4: He's up there, you know, beer drinking Brian and some
Speaker 4: of the other characters that we've had over the years
Speaker 4: on the show. He was sitting right in front of me.
Speaker 4: Actually posted a photo of this. If you look closely
Speaker 4: at the photo, you can see Mike in Vegas me.
Speaker 4: He's laughing because he's completely sauced schnockered. And then he
Speaker 4: wanted to drink, and so instead of ordering off the menu,
Speaker 4: he just pulled out He has bags with him because
Speaker 4: he's a little down on his luck, and he pulled
Speaker 4: out a bottle of mouthwash, like an extra large bottle
Speaker 4: of mouthwash, and started jugging the mouthwash. He just wanted
Speaker 4: some booze. So he's like that, and I was like, hey,
Speaker 4: you know, I think you might you might have an issue,
Speaker 4: you know, I was like, you know, Captain obvious, and.
Speaker 1: He play to me.
Speaker 4: And we heard this before with beer drinking Brian and
Speaker 4: some others, that he is such an alcoholic he cannot
Speaker 4: stop drinking or he's going to die his body.
Speaker 1: He's been, he.
Speaker 4: Told me, he's been on the streets of Vegas for
Speaker 4: like fifteen years and he has to consume alcohol or
Speaker 4: else it's lights out.
Speaker 1: So that was I mean, I feel I felt bad
Speaker 1: for the guy. Obviously, I felt bad for the guy,
Speaker 1: and I told him, I said, listen, Mike, I'm worried
Speaker 1: about you. I want you to be around for a
Speaker 1: long time. This does not seem like it's going well
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 4: And he said, I got you know, he's trying to
Speaker 4: rationalize everything and all that. But it was nice that
Speaker 4: he showed up and he's a big fan of the
Speaker 4: show and he told us, you know, he said, listen,
Speaker 4: Obviously he's on a on a tough part of his
Speaker 4: life and this is something that the show cheers him up,
Speaker 4: and he likes being a character on the show and
Speaker 4: all that. So that made me feel good. I did
Speaker 4: want to mention that we're doing the show this morning.
Speaker 4: I'm doing the show solo as again. Rick and Maryland
Speaker 4: will say morning time here early on this Friday. I
Speaker 4: am on the East Coast. I'm in Boston. I can't
Speaker 4: get into that right now. Some meetings or whatever doesn't
Speaker 4: really matter. But I have a little bit of time,
Speaker 4: like I have a day and a half today and
Speaker 4: tomorrow where I'll be kind of cruising around a little
Speaker 4: bit and enjoying the New England States. So if you're
Speaker 4: a big fan of the show, I'll send out some
Speaker 4: comments on Twitter. If I happen to just show up,
Speaker 4: I'll be driving throughout the area, like all the states
Speaker 4: around here, and so if you're interested, if you're available,
Speaker 4: you have nothing going on, and I bet you I
Speaker 4: won't run anybody. Probably won't run anybody, but yeah, I'll
Speaker 4: just let you know. I might be heading to New Hampshire.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'll be in Portland, Maine or something like that.
Speaker 4: I'll just let you know, or Vermont or wherever, So
Speaker 4: be on guard for that. If you're a big fan
Speaker 4: of the show, and I don't know whether or not
Speaker 4: we're going to see anybody, but I'll give you the option,
Speaker 4: give you a heads up, give you an hour's notice,
Speaker 4: something like that. You can send me a message if
Speaker 4: you're planning on coming out in Santallo. That's my plan
Speaker 4: anyway as of now. Now I do have to get
Speaker 4: final approval, but have a wonderful, glorious rest of your Friday.
Speaker 1: We thank you for sporting show.
Speaker 4: Thanks again to everybody that showed up, I want to
Speaker 4: thank Slug for putting that together with his buddy there
Speaker 4: from the Steakout Bar and Grill.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll be back there in future years.
Speaker 4: I want to thank Eddie and Lorraine and Coop for
Speaker 4: traveling to Vegas, for being part of this. I want
Speaker 4: to think it all for who showed up, I mean
Speaker 4: all over the place, right, And we'll do many more
Speaker 4: of these to come, but they're sporadic, nothing scheduled until
Speaker 4: after football season at this particular point. But have a
Speaker 4: wonderful day and we will catch you next time. Austa pasta.
Speaker 4: Is that what Danny would say? I think that's what
Speaker 4: Danny would say, right, Yeah, got a murder.
Speaker 1: I gotta go