WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Marlins Man Posse 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.440 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:30.680 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.920 In the air everywhere. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.280 The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio, 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.879 A Happy Saturday to you. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:39.520 We have arrived here. 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:44.080 The twenty first day of the month of June, a 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:49.520 celebration of National Selfie Day today. And I've been doing 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:54.520 this podcast long enough that I recall this day. I 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:56.280 don't know if we did this last year or a 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.280 couple of years ago, but it is National Selfie Day. 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:03.760 And the stat on this, the fun fact on this 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:08.640 which blows me away. The first selfie widely credited to 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:13.280 somebody named Robert Cornelius, and who the f was Robert 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:17.320 cornelis He was an American chemist and is considered one 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:21.240 of the founding fathers of photography, which kind of obvious. 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.200 He's one of the first people to do a selfie. Now, 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.480 the thing about this, this goes all the way back 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.880 to eighteen thirty nine. This guy, Robert Cornelius, had to 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:35.679 sit still, perfectly still for ten to fifteen minutes to 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:43.720 create the first intentional self portrait. So imagine in eighteen 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.040 thirty nine what the world must have been like. I mean, 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:50.000 that's only sixty some odd years A little over that, 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:57.000 the birth of America and the world's first selfie. Robert 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:03.480 Cornelius the earliest form of photography utilizing natural light and 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:07.440 silver transfers, and it was born. And it wasn't from 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:12.280 that point until the nineteen seventies, So from eighteen thirty 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.800 nine to the nineteen seven so we're talking about one 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:20.119 hundred and thirty some odd years. And then ted all 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.520 about the digital. It was all about the digital. A 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:29.079 company came up with a way to do digital photography, 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.720 the dawn of the digital age. The first digital camera 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:37.880 was invented in nineteen seventy nine, and then it wasn't 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:46.400 until another decade plus that the first global social media 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:51.840 website started, MySpace. MySpace is huge, as my old colleague 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:56.040 Karen Kay said back in the day, and Facebook debuted 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.400 in the early two thousands, and so that was that 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.240 was the beginning. And then the next big change was 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:08.920 in two thousand and two the Nokia Phone and the 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:13.640 Sanyo Phone. They debuted camera phones, and then ever since 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:19.760 then watch out. There is no stopping, no stopping the selfies. 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:24.280 So today National Selfie Day. On this podcast, though, we 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:29.640 go swimming with the marlin. Swimming with the marlin, as 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:35.560 in the Marlin Man, and who goofed? I've got to know? 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:39.080 The phone edition, who Goofed? I've got to know? And 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.440 we'll have some phrases, probably more than one phrase of 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:46.240 the day, but we'll begin with this. So, once upon 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:51.760 a time, a very long time ago, a strange thing. 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.880 Happened on a very high mountain in the north Woods. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.880 That was early on a random Sunday night or late 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:06.720 on a Saturday, and yours truly was lounging around. It's 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.680 very early or very late, depending on how you look 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.520 at these things, and the decision was made to take 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:18.880 a bath to decompress from the week that was. The 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.560 wife was away, she was at work, she was working 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.680 an extra shift, so I was alone. Got a random text, 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:31.360 I'm in the bathtub and I get a text and 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.080 it's from a number that I had not received a 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.320 text from in some time. And I was like, oh, 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.800 who's this And their name pops up and it says Lawrence, 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.880 and I was like, wait a minute, I know Lawrence. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.039 I only know one person named Lawrence, and it's not 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:49.960 Trevor Lawrence in my life. 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:51.080 In my phone. 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.640 There's one person in my phone, I believe right now 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:58.200 named Lawrence. And he goes by the moniker Martlin's Man. Now, 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.360 keep in mind, I had not heard from mar Oland's 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.360 Man in many, many months. I had not seen Marlin's 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.760 Man in a couple of years. So he sends me 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:12.240 a text. He says, Hey, I'm heading to Los Angeles. 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.000 I'm on a plane. I'm at the airport here in Florida. 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:21.520 I'm flying on a very early morning flight to his time, 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.960 heading to California, and I'm going to beat the Dodger game. 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:32.400 It's the primetime Sunday night game Dodgers in Los Angeles 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.080 and they're playing the Padres or not the Pidters, the Giants. 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:38.200 He says, are you going to the game. 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:39.320 I'd like to see you? 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.359 So all right back, I said, listen, I'm very excited 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.480 that you're going to be at a Dodger games. I 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:47.120 haven't seen you in. 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:47.760 A long time. 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.159 I'm very happy for that, but I will not be 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.680 at the game. I then explained how the Dodgers had 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.400 cut me off. They had stonewalled me the PR department 0:05:55.400 --> 0:06:00.440 for the Dodgers since they got Shohio Tani. Despite almost 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.560 thirty years of covering the Dodgers, they decided that I 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.480 was not worthy of being there on a regular basis. 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:10.160 So a few minutes later I sent that to Marlin's man. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:11.719 I explained the whole deal. I said, listen, I've been 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:15.320 replaced by seven reporters from different news outfits in Japan, 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.680 and I get it. They're making more money. I guess 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.520 they don't value the overnight show, which is on a 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.760 station which is almost owned, like half of it by 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:26.800 the Dodgers. Anyway, So Marlin's man text me back and 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.440 he says, hey, listen, I want you to go to 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:29.720 the game. 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.360 I'll get your ticket. You want to go, I'll get 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:32.680 you a ticket right next to me. 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:37.200 And without missing a beat. Now I had other plans. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:42.960 I said, hell, yes, yes, what time do I need 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.200 to be there? It was that simply said, listen, do 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:47.919 you still have the same email. I'm gonna transfer the 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.279 ticket over to you. So he sent me the ticket. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.640 He didn't send me parking, which I'm okay with. So 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:59.440 I got to the stadium, and that in itself was 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:05.240 an issue because remember last weekend, the civil unrest was 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.160 going on. There was a lot of animosity. There's still 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.480 a lot of animosity in the LA area. But the 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:16.239 off ramp, all of them, all the off ramps from 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.000 the one oh one Freeway, which is what I take 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:20.560 to get to downtown LA. 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:21.720 I normally will get off. 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.000 I know all the streets in LA because I used 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.119 to live down there and I've been there a million 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.080 times to Dodger Stadium, and it's much easier to get 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.520 into Dodger Stadium from a couple of streets which are 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:33.840 not right off the freeway. 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:34.920 You get off the one oh. 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:42.480 One and you make your way through and you can 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.400 get there pretty quick. But the problem was everything was closed, 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.320 so all of the routes or routes that I normally 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.600 take to the ballpark I couldn't take. There were highway 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:58.680 patrol LAPD fully armed loaded all that blocking every on 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.960 ramp and off ramp. So this ended up adding about 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.440 two hours. Roughly, it was like an hour and a 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.600 half to two hours of my commute to the ballpark. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:14.320 So I finally get there, and I realized that, wait 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.800 a minute, if I park here, it is going to 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:19.200 be a freaking nightmare. 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.240 And I like to save a couple of bucks when 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:22.520 I can. 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:27.920 So the Dodgers, they claim they don't own the parking 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.200 lots at Dodger Stadium and all that stuff, but whoever 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.640 does own the parking lots at Dodger Stadium is making 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:38.200 a killing because there is no real public transportation at 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.079 Dodger Stadium. You got to take a bunch of trains, planes, 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.680 buses and all that stuff. So the parking at Dodger 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.480 Stadium is forty dollars for general parking. 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.120 Forty bucks, all right. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.400 So I remembered because I would park here back when 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.720 I was in good standing with the Dodgers. I would 0:08:55.720 --> 0:09:01.520 park down the hill near the La Fire Academy, and 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.319 it's like a fire building. They have a gymnasium and 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:09.040 all that stuff, And that's the overflow parking. It's not 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:15.600 technically in Dodger Stadium property. It's down down, not at 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.559 the bottom all the way, but it's like halfway down 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.000 the hill, and. 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:21.280 So I go. 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.040 I was like, wait a minute, I can park here, 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.600 And I said, five dollars dollars twenty twenty five. 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:32.680 You can pay five dollars five dollars. 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:36.280 To pay for parking. Now, there was one problem that 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.480 I did not factor in. I did the arithmetic here 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.800 and I did not factor this in the problem. It 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:47.120 was a scorcher. It was like ninety five degrees in 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:52.680 Los Angeles on Sunday. And so I paid the woman 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.760 for the parking five dollars on the credit card, no cash, 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.560 and then I get out of the car and I 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:04.319 have to walk all the way up the hill. Now 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:08.640 this is a social event. I'm not working, so I 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.439 have to walk all the way up there. And I'm like, listen, 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.040 I'm in. I spend my time on the treadmill. 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.000 I can do that. It's not that I can't. 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:19.360 Do it, But how am I going to appear when 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.360 I get to Dodger Stadium on a ninety five degrade 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:28.240 degree day with no shade. So I start walking one 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.640 foot in front of the other. You know, that's how 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.200 all great journeys begin. I've read that somewhere. So by 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.760 the time I get to the ballpark, I am hand 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:38.520 to God. 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:40.280 Covered in sweat. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:45.520 It appears that I've just taken a bath and my 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:51.000 clothes are drenched. So I get you use the ticket. 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.400 I get to the ballpark and I immediately go to 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:58.280 the bathroom on the reserve level. I go to the bathroom. 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:03.120 I then grab as many paper towels as I can 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.600 get my hands on as many of them, and I 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.719 start trying to dry myself off because I've got to 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.920 see Marlin's man, Lawrence, and I don't want to look 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:18.040 like a slub. So here I am grabbing these paper 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.800 towels and I'm in a fever pitch, trying to drive 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:27.199 myself off the glamorous life of a big time overnight 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.840 radio star unless I'm not. But I'm sitting in the 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:35.079 front row. All the rich people, all the big shots, 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:39.000 they sit down there. So I then had to find 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:43.199 Marlin's man. This was a problem. I couldn't find it. 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:44.959 I get down all the way down, I take the 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:49.120 escalators down. I actually ran into Rick Monday, and I 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.440 explained to Rick. On my way down, I said Rick 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.120 real quick, I waved him. He was kind of surprised 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.880 to see me. I've known Rick for many many years 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.960 since I was a kid, and Rick was kind of 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.800 taking it back, and I just quickly said, I said, listen, 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.520 I'm not really allowed out here much anymore, but I. 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.960 Just want to say hello, something along those lines. And 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:12.520 then that was it. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.480 So again I'm still covered in sweat. I'm trying to 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:19.720 find Marlin's man. I get down there, he's not there. 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.960 I send him a text. He doesn't right back, so 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:24.680 I'm looking around now. The good thing is he always 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.800 wears that orange Marlin shirt. He has the orange hat, 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.880 and so he stands out like a throbbing orange thumb. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.040 All these people were in Dodger blue. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.400 There were a few Giants fans, and then there's Marlins 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:41.640 Man and he's wearing his orange Marlin's Jersey's got the 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:46.040 signature hat, the whole thing, which at one point about 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.840 six or seven years ago was a very popular Halloween 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:53.640 costume for many many years. And he was also late 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.720 because of the traffic in downtown. 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:57.880 La, the civil unrest and all. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.560 He had the same issues I had, except he had 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.240 it worse because he is not familiar. He only comes 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:09.720 to La occasionally, not very awful. So we finally a 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:13.880 long story short, we finally connect. Now keep in mind, 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.360 in between the time I'm waiting for Marlin's Man, I 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.520 grabbed a single cup of ice water to try to 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:24.840 cool down my internal temperature. I then go back to 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.960 the luxury bathroom. 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.360 Where all like the rich f's. 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:35.040 Hangout, like all the very important people hang out, and 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.280 I'm I'm still sweaty. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:39.160 What do you think I did? 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:45.079 That's right, yes, I grabbed a bunch of paper towels 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:50.120 and started wiping the shits, as my grandfather would say, 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:55.760 off my body. I was still worried about my appearance. 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.840 I was like, this is embarrassing, and I got a 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:02.640 good deal, I say, thirty five dollars on parking. However, 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.320 I ended up looking like I had been in hot 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.480 yoga and it was It was awkward. So again we 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:16.000 connected Marlin's Man, and fortunately he didn't seem to notice 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:21.040 that my clothing was still drying. He was very cordial, 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.880 very polite, dapper man, Marlin's Man with the orange outfit, 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.640 and he's also a very big tipper. Marlin's Man's got 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.800 a couple of bucks, so he's a very big tipper. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.720 And he takes care of the people that work at 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:37.920 the different ballparks, and so everyone when he walks in, 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.479 like there's a battle between the people that serve the food. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.160 And there's like a pecking order. 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.920 And I've been there enough with Marlin's Man over the years, 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:49.480 where this is the Kramdala Krem. The richest of the 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.920 rich get these tickets buying on plate and some very 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.640 wealthy people in La that work at movie studios and 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.800 our executives at tech companies and our so But Marlin's 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.960 Man when he walks in, the waiters come over. They 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:09.600 want him to work with them because you know, he'll 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.960 get any table he wants, but he'll pay a large 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:14.360 amount in terms of tipping. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:19.280 So he hooks us up. The server. The gentleman who 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.360 came up hooks us up. I think his name was 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:22.120 d or something. 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.000 Anyway, he hooked us up with a table and it 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:31.040 was a freeloaders paradise, freeloaders paradise. I went for the 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.360 chicken palm sandwiches. Now there was some high end seafood, 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.080 really good seafood if you're into that kind of thing, 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:37.840 which many of. 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:39.400 The people there were enjoying. 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.240 And I went for the chicken parm sandwich where they 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:47.720 were a chef's kiss, the perfect ratio of chicken, not 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:53.040 too thick, not too thin, fried to perfection, covered in nice, 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:58.200 delicious cheese. And then they had the perfect sauce sauce 0:15:58.280 --> 0:15:59.240 to chicken. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:00.119 The cheese ratio. 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:04.000 I also had some chicken enchiladas. Why not little garlic 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:09.160 Little Mexican had some garlic bread with the chicken palm 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.080 and the enchiladas and all that. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:12.040 Like a hodgepodge. 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.960 I just it's like a pot luck, except there was 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.200 a lot of luck, a lot of luck, and so 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:22.840 it was a hodgepodge of goodness. It was delicious, and 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.880 I tossed in some Father Day Father's Day cupcakes. They 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.440 had this big spread of cupcakes. I posted some photos 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:36.720 on social media. It was a marvelous culinary experience. Now 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.360 I should also point out, and it is interesting to 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.880 note that I was not there as just the only 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:43.480 guest of. 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.120 Marlin's Man, Because when Marlin's. 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:49.600 Man goes to a game, Lawrence likes to socialize and 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:54.080 he always invites a group of people and we become 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.800 friends for that day and over the years going to 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:04.879 these games, I have befriend did everyone from executives at companies, 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:10.080 major companies that have gone here, to models, you name it, 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.320 and it's like a whole you never know who's going 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.439 to be there. So Marlin's man invited a couple of 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:19.040 his other friends, and one was an actor who has 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.359 been in a bunch of random roles, like one of 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.960 those guys you kind of know who he is, but 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.040 you're not really sure. He also worked at a high 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:33.040 profile job in Stanford, Connecticut, traveled around with professional. 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:34.400 Wrestling, so he was there. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.600 And then the other gentleman also worked in entertainment as well. 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.280 Both these guys were living in New York. Now, the 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:46.040 other guy that was I'm not really familiar with exactly 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:52.120 what he did, but he he ended up. He ended 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:56.159 up originally from LA. He moved to New York and 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.840 he had a lot of money. And I'm not giving 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.960 any names here, so tell some more details. But the 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:06.119 other guy was looking to buy a place, like he 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.600 flew out, went to the Dodger game and he's like 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:08.959 telling him. 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:10.920 He's like, yeah, I'm looking to buy a place. 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.359 In LA And he's like explaining that he's gonna buy 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:19.119 a like a high end luxury condo and so I 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.359 was like, oh, you got that kind of money. 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:22.720 He's like, you know, you buy a house. 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:24.920 And then he's explaining, He's like, yeah, I got a 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:29.320 lot of my friends have had home invasion robberies, which 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:31.159 has been a big problem. A lot of it doesn't 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:36.439 get reported on since they try to downplay that stuff. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:38.080 They try to keep it on the down low. 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:40.679 The athlete thing gets reported a lot when their houses 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:41.520 get broken into. 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:43.800 It anyway, So the guy's like, yeah, I'm looking at some. 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:46.240 Real estate here and I decided to go to the game. 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.720 And he's like a Yankees fan, but he's okay with 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:53.200 the Mets. The other guy's a Mets fan and he's 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.440 okay with the Yankees, which is odd, right, He's odd 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.879 because the guy that's the the guy's the Yankees fan lives. 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.919 He's from Long Island, and anybody that knows New York, 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.480 I mean from there. I've got family there. 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.440 The rule is generally, if you're in the city or 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:11.639 a Yankee fan, and if you're over on the side 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:15.280 there on Long Island, you are a fan of the 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.880 Mets because that's the local team. Anyway, things are all messing. 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:21.720 So that was the group of people that I was with, 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:28.600 and we were schmoozen wall eating, and even though I 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.320 am a full on introvert and it's very awkward for 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:35.240 me to converse with random people that I've never met, 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.080 I actually enjoyed the conversation. 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.399 You know, there's a couple of guys talking ball. You know, 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:41.160 we were talking ball. 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.080 We were all talking about what we do for our careers, 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.040 and Marlin's Man was really pumping me up, which made 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:48.840 me feel good because these guys were kind of big 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:50.680 shots and he was pumping me up. He's a fan 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:52.840 of the show and he misses Eddie and we were 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:54.560 talking about some of the old days on the show 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.399 when he called in and all this stuff. Now, a 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:59.520 lot of what we talked about is not fit for broadcasts, 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.280 and it's the private conversation and I'm not going to 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:04.679 talk about that. But Marlin's Man told some stories, some 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.760 I'd heard, some I had not heard. He also knows 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.840 a lot of very important people at Major League Baseball. 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:15.680 Marlin's Man because of his job in his real life 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:17.919 and his travels around baseball. 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:21.080 Everyone knows him because of the outfit and he's a 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:22.200 very nice guy. 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:25.399 And so he is around people that tell him stuff 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:29.360 like the inner workings of Major League Baseball. And so 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.080 he'll tell me things he's heard. You know, who knows 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:34.360 if it's true or not. I believe most of it's 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:36.919 probably very true because things he's told me in the 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:41.120 past have happened long after that. Unfortunately, I cannot use 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:44.399 that stuff on the air because I'll get cut off. 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:46.280 So it's one of those weird things. 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:51.600 Like I know stuff that's going to happen, yet I 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:53.960 can't do it. And I'm not a journalist. I'm a 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.280 talk showist. I'm an opinion guy. Talk show is a 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:01.560 columnist on the radio. We're not there to report the news. 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.320 We are just there to give opinions on what happens 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:09.640 and to occasionally going to no Stradamus mode, distant relative 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:13.600 of no Stradamus, friend of no stradenis and all that stuff. 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:16.399 So he told me some stuff I can't repeat. So 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:23.080 then it's right before first pitch, and about twenty minutes 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:27.160 before first pitch, we're still inside because very hot Marlin's 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:29.239 man Lawrence is like, listen, we're gonna go out right 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:31.919 before the game. It's too hot. I did this before 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:34.760 when I was hot. Here there's no shade. We're just 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:40.600 gonna wait. Okay, fine, so there you go, and we 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:42.560 my phone starts blowing up. I was getting all these 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:45.119 messages about half an hour before the game. 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:47.000 I told the story a. 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:51.120 Little bit on the radio, but found out first one 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:54.840 in the group to find out that the Higants had 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:59.040 traded with the Boston Red Sox for Raffie Devers. And 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:02.120 then that became buzz. Everyone was talking about. They were 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:05.080 putting their cupcakes and their cookies down, and they're like, 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:09.080 can you believe this? Unbelievable. So we watched the game, 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:10.600 had a good time. He had a lot of junk 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:12.879 food during the game as well. The Dodgers ended up 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:16.720 winning the game, and Marlin's Man. 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:19.320 Had told us, he says, listen, let's get out of here. 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:21.040 There's like one out to go in the ninth finning 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:22.280 or whatever is. He got to get out of here. 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:25.240 So I did what I was told to do. 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:29.520 Part of the group we left again one out before 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:32.840 the game endn't and Marlin's Man had to get out 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:35.040 of Dodge and get out of the ballpark. Hit back 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:38.879 to lax for a flight to Florida. He also attended 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:44.240 the Florida Panthers clinching the Stanley Cup on Tuesday night. 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:47.640 He was sent me a bunch of photos from the celebration. 0:22:47.880 --> 0:22:52.400 He's sitting right against the glass at the game. Now, 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:56.159 leaving Dodger Stadium was also a bit of an opposite go. 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:58.119 I had the same issue I had coming into Dodger 0:22:58.160 --> 0:23:01.160 Stadium with a slight change. 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:03.560