WEBVTT - Put on Ice 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:05.880 If you thought four hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:09.559 was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:13.720 old Republic, the sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.279 in the ghetto Cutter the same as the rich pill 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:20.400 poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of Hot takes 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:25.200 Break Free for Something Special Hour with Ben Maller starts 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:31.880 right now in the air everywhere, back at it on 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:35.040 a Saturday. Hope your weekend is going well. Here we 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:40.440 are eight days a week, the global reach of podcasting. 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:42.879 We thank you, we thank you, we thank you, We 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:47.000 thank you for finding the podcast and it is very 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.600 meaningful and and remember you can follow us on social media. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.440 If we have any other gigs coming up, we always 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:56.080 promote those on social media and you can always get 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:01.000 the latest information at Ben Maller on Twitter and Instagram, 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:04.919 Ben Maller on Fox Facebook. Bennet Mallard Show joined again 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:09.640 by David Gascon from West of the four oh five 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.960 making his way in. I am I'm happy to be here. 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:15.720 Unlike most of the guys were in Dodger Blue, I 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:19.160 am not on the injured list. Yeah, well, can you 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.720 play defense? And can you actually you know, have some 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.679 balls on the mound as a relief pitcher, because if 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:25.560 you could do those things, the Dodgers could use. But 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:27.160 I don't have a lot of that right now. I 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.160 it just it's it's pretty wild. Hell, they blew a 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.880 seven one lead to the San Diego Padres and that 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.319 kind of just was the ignition for this tailspin that 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:40.000 they have been in. Holy sh it. Yeah, no, I 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.440 mean they're they're a joke right now. And uh, you know, 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:47.680 listen Andrew Freedman, boy, wonder there the executive everything came 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:49.880 up great the last couple of years with the Dodgers. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.080 The players he picked up that were auxiliary players, but 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.560 the secondary actors suck. And the guys that he brought 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.200 in there, they got rid of some old stalwarts that 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.600 we were fine with. I didn't need, I didn't need 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.680 buyas out of the bulpen again, right, I was good 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.920 changing things up, But the guys they brought in sucked. 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.480 And uh, and they've been bad. And they got rid 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.160 of Jack Peterson and Kei k Hernandez and guys like that. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.600 And you figure you can get some outfielders will be 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:19.119 able to hit, and guys that can play the position defensively. 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:22.200 And these guys have been terrible. I mean, the backup 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:26.400 guys have been absolutely dreadful. Yeah, and just imagine if 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.960 they because they were pondering resunning Justin Turner, where the 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.240 funk would they be without him? And he's batting over three, 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.720 He's one of the he's one of the best defenders 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.359 on that lineup right now. So they'd be in a 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.880 world to hurt right now. And then Cody Bellinger's obviously out, 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.639 but I'm missing his three or four strikeouts the game 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.720 per night. Yeah, and they're they're like, well, they're injured, 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.120 they'll be all right and all that stuff, and maybe 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.040 they will be all right. So the season goes on forever. 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.000 It's not a sixty game season. But at this point, 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:58.600 my hot take Gascon on the Dodgers is that Andrew Freedman, 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.600 who had the might, has touched the golden touch. Right, 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.840 even by accident, he was picking up good place. He 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:09.440 had this uncanny ability as backup players, but now here 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.840 in one he's got the sadom touch. You know what, 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.960 the sadom touches, gas Gun. That would be the opposite 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.000 of the mightas touch, right, you know, Mightas touched everything 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.440 you touch. Turns to gold. With the sadom touch everything 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:24.200 you touch turns to ship. And that's what's going on 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:28.680 right now with the Dodgers, right that's take Now, have 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.200 you done have you done anything that would rival a 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:38.720 Clayton Kershoven monologue? No, not yet, not yet. That would 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.400 be a premature situation. But I'm getting closer and closer. 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.880 And if this spills into another week and we'll see 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.400 how things go. Obviously we're recording this podcast at the 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.840 previous day, but we'll we'll see what happens. But I 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:56.360 am I am considering. I've gotten emails from some Dodger 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.520 lap dogs like myself here, who are demanding that I 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:05.320 put the hypnotic suggestion into Dave Roberts and Andrew Freeman 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.800 shake it up a little bit, because I always believe, 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.400 and this is my philosophy on sports radio panic and 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.240 then ask questions. I believe it's panic at the disco 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.240 all the time. That's what I believe. Nothing wrong with that. 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.120 It's fitting because we had Steve Hartman on yesterday with 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.240 us that he's one of the rare guys along with yourself, 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.680 that actually go after the l A teams in this 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:31.400 market where you know, unlike unlike San Diego or San Francisco, 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.800 or maybe like Colorado or Arizona, you don't get a 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.640 lot of that on the West coast, more so Philadelphia, 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.640 New York and Boston, like those the only markets in Chicago. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.680 We will actually attack those teams and not suck up 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:48.320 to management players the organizations as a whole. Well that's 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.200 one of Listen, I love l A and all that, 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:51.880 but there's too many people out here that are just 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.120 you know, la la la la la, everything will be fine, 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.360 don't worry about anything. And I'm I'm I'm the opposite, 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.120 which is one of the reasons actually the show has 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.360 done so well in Boss. And I'm very cynical when 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:03.240 I know I've been able to I've been offered radio 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.120 jobs in Boston whatnot, because I kind of have that 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:06.880 mindset even though I didn't grow up there and I 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.160 grew up here and all that stuff. But I I'm 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.320 always convinced whoever you hire is the wrong higher, whoever 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.520 you draft the wrong player. Uh. And the coaches whatever 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:19.240 plays they call incorrect right and uh. And even when 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.960 you're playing well, you're always waiting for the other shooter 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.080 drop right you're always you're always waiting and you know 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:28.600 it's gonna happen. And even like it was, I love 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.600 the Clippers. I believe the Clippers are gonna win the championship, 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:36.000 but I understand that, you know, the Paul George playoff 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.480 p thing is problematic. However, However, I heard the same 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:44.000 crap with Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers won the championship. 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.800 So and heard things about David Price when he was 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.320 with the Red Sox and they won. So a lot 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.000 of bullcrap. It doesn't really mean anything. Oh, this guy 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:53.720 I can't win, and then he wins, and then they 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.040 move on to the next guy. It's like a moving 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:56.880 it's like a whack a mole. You move on to 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.240 the next target. Well, we're a few months away from 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.960 the NFL c isn't getting underway, but I could hardly 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.720 wait for that one a week where you're just having 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.240 a great day and then all of a sudden, Matthew 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:11.080 Stafford throws three picks and costs the Rams a game. No, 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.680 and I don't see that in my crystal ball. You 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.680 know what's gonna happen. It's let's go back now. I 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.880 remember a conversation we had before the NFL Draft with 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:25.200 a certain talker host in Houston who said, remember this, 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:30.160 John Salisbury. He said that he has in Matthew Stafford 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.680 as a m v P nvy P Canada, as a 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:38.000 former NFL quarterback, former star commentator on ESPN. Sean Salisbury, 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:42.840 that's we can't see an ugly face of Stafford though. Well, no, 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.680 everyone has a bad game, Listen, I mean no, No 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:49.279 one's gonna play sixteen perfect games. I'm sure Matthew Stafford 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:50.960 will have a game where he comes out and pukes 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.720 all over the logo at the fifty yard line. It's 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.640 going to happen. But if it happens consistently, that's a problem. 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.240 If it happens once in a while, once every you know, 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.520 five games or something like that, Okay, that's an acceptable 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.320 what's within the margin of error? I mean, hell, hell, 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:10.160 Aaron Rodgers has ship games, Peyton Manning had crap games, 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:14.360 Tom Brady has terrible games, Breeze has had bad moments. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.040 That's that's what happens. So anyway, all right, I got 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:22.680 postal perfection, gluttony, glory. We also have speed trading and 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.400 pop quiz. There's a lot to get to. Let's go 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.840 rat a tat tat gascon rat a tat tat all 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:33.680 right now, postal perfection. Over last weekend, while you were 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:38.000 enjoying the podcast, I made the pilgrimage to the hollowed 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:44.080 hallways of the Fox Sports Radio studios in Sherman Oaks, California, 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.760 right there in La La Land, the San Fernando Valley, 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.160 right on the corner of Ventura and s Pulvita, some 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.920 high end real estate there the I Heart Media building 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.240 home in the Premier Networks. And I traveled there and 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:02.400 made my journey to pick up my listener mail, my 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.200 listener mail. Now I've been bad about this. I've not 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.640 done this in many months. Bad job by me. Uh. 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:11.560 Cooper Loop said, hey, you idiot, there's tons of mail here. 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.240 You probably should come pick it up. And I said 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.320 I should, I should, and I didn't and I didn't 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.200 and I didn't and uh, I just want to thank 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.480 that malle Musha, the listeners of the Overnight Show, not 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.600 this show. They the people on the podcast, not so much, 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.640 but the Overnight show man or the very kind, generous, 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:32.640 loving people. And I walked in there. I walk in 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.840 the building. I turned, I walked down a little bit 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.319 of a hall. There's a drinking fountain, and then turn right, 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:43.079 turn right, turn right, and then walked down past the 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.640 blue kitchen and then there's a table on the other 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.680 side there. And it was and I'm not exaggerating here, 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.679 it was as high as the heavens. Uh. And and 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.880 it was filled with with all kinds of things, letters, boxes, 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.760 you name it there and it's uh, it's great. I 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.120 have not even been able to sort through everything. I 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.199 did want to take them all. I think Rachel and 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:13.520 Mono Bello sent a large, massive box of candy, which 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.360 I think I need to share because if I eat 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.040 the whole thing, I'll be five hundred pounds again. But 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.440 I I thank her for that very kind And uh. 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:25.079 The hat collection is expanding here Gascon, so I will 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.559 have some new hatch to wear courtesy of p ones 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.760 in the Mallard militia were taking care of their gas bag. 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.559 Are they form fitting hats? Are the adjustables? Well, I 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.439 haven't gone through all the hats, and I'll give you 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.360 the hat breakdown once I go through all that. But 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:42.200 I just want to I want to thank you guys. 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:43.920 You guys don't have to send me anything, obviously, but 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.079 I do, thank you, and it's very kind. And I 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.440 love these unique hats. Uh, that's that's my thing. I mean, 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.280 I've said I want to I support the police. I 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.360 know that's taboo, but if you if your police officer. 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:57.520 We got a lot of police that listen to the 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:01.000 show overnight, any police had I will wear and represent 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.880 your your department loud and proud and minor league baseball. 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:06.719 I think we talked about this in the previous episode, guest. 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.360 We we both like kind of the obscure. I like 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.680 obscure college hats and I like minor league baseball hats. 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:15.880 Those are probably my favorite right now. And I I 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:17.920 wore the RAM hat the other day and I still 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.120 you know, I'll rep my teams there and I have 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.080 a tribute to my Boston sojourn in radio. I'll wear 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.319 some of the Boston hats. But other than that, you know, 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.800 it's mostly minor league college stuff. That's good and it's uh, 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.679 it's it's spicy, and the best part about it is 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:33.719 people will look at your hat, stare at it and 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.839 not know who the funk that hat has to do with, 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.439 which is great. You don't know where the city is, 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.880 what the team is, and they usually have some pretty 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.400 good nicknames too. So and also I have learned what 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.199 the college thing. When you wear like weird colleges or 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.880 colleges that aren't in your area, you get a lot 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:51.559 of people that want to start a conversation with you. 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:55.560 Because I remember I had a Wyoming University of Wyoming. Uh. 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:57.560 I used to go to the gym and I'd wear 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:03.000 this sweatshirt and it had Wyoming Cowboys logo. Yeah, it's 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.000 pretty cool. I got it like at Ross Dress for 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.679 Less or something like that. I gotta, but it was 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.200 every time I wore that thing, somebody come up here, 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.280 are you from Wyoming? Uh? Yeah? Like no, I've never 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.880 been to Why. I've flown over Wyoming a few times, 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.520 but that's about it. I used to know a guy 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.520 that Steve Stillwell, that worked in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and I've 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.200 had callers from Wyoming, but I don't I don't actually 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:31.719 don't actually have any experience in Wyoming. Here. It's what 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.640 national is it? Yellow Stone is in Wyoming. Yeah, so 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.080 I guess there's a reason to go to Wyoming Yellowstone. 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.000 You know, I don't think we'll need a vaccine passport 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.520 to go to Yellowstone. So no, you don't think we'll 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.559 need that. No, I don't think about that. Yeah I 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:46.440 think so. But to go to Dodger Stadium, you might, 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.480 you might, well you might, or you might be segregated 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.199 like you are at at a couple of ballparks in 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:57.160 New York. Yeah. Yeah, segregation is back Joe Biden's America 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.640 right there. It's a cheap shotcast scout. All right, we 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:04.240 have gluttony glory, as my grandfather would say, what a causer. 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.800 All right, So our lead, our lead right now in 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:11.520 this portion of the fifth Hour comes from an epic 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:18.719 birthday weekend food run last Saturday. Now I mentioned I 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:20.800 had gone to pick up the mail, but prior to that, 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.599 all right, prior to that, when this was while you 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.959 had tarnished my name, my good Remember during my podcast 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.000 we're recording, and you I called you a piece of ship. Yeah, 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:33.719 you called me a piece of ship. You remember what 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.439 you said? You called me a piece of shit on 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.839 my birthday. And I'm gonna remember on your birthday. You 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.240 don't even remember you have the same birthday as O. J. Simpson. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.880 Of course I remember that. That's that's how I know 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.720 your birthday because you and o J. Which is great 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:52.040 because your dad she's very famous with o J and 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.199 all that. But anyway, so yeah, on your birthday, I'm 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:59.560 gonna call up and say, David Gascon piece of shit. 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.760 Uh that is going to happen. That is going to happen. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.040 But anyway, so just get to the point, please. So 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:07.840 first of all, I decided I need to over indulge. 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.480 I need to have a throwback, and I believe I 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:16.520 had the perfect food day in l A, authentic l A, 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.360 the best dining you can get. Now. I started out 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:23.480 across the street from MacArthur Park. You know, it's across 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.520 the street from MacArthur Park. Nothing good, No, no, no, 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.120 Now that's an historic park. You know MacArthur Park has 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.959 been around since the eighteen eighties. Did you know that 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.719 eighteen eighties? Early it's one of the first things. It 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.400 was swamp land. It's one of the first things they built. 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.600 And I've heard the story from historians in the real 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.800 authentic this point that in the early days of l 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.600 A it was all swamp land, and some investors came 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:50.439 in and they that was actually the the prime part 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.640 of l A. They tore up the swamp and they 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:57.520 built this massive lake which was like a reservoir for 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.720 the water supply in southern California. And then they built 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.040 all these hotels around it to get tourists to come 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.120 to California. And it worked and and and it worked. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.560 But but anyway, uh, and by the way, it's named 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:12.120 after General Douglas MacArthur. Do you know that. Yeah, it's 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.360 named after General. It had a different name. I know 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.440 a lot about MacArthur Park. And it's also a total shipthole. 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:22.280 I know that. Uh. If you want prostitution, drug dealing, shootouts, 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.200 homeless pissing, and shipping like it's a third world country, 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.920 it is literally sodom and gomorrah at MacArthur Park in 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:34.720 Los Angeles. It is unbelievable. But anyway, it's by the way, 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:36.520 before I forget, I'm gonna get to the point here. 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.160 But do you know the legendary story that I've heard 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:43.400 for years about MacArthur Park that the lake that they 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.400 have there, they've drained it a few times. You know, 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:50.520 when they've drained it, what they found bodies, bodies, guns, 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.760 all kinds of amazing things that were just tossed into lake. 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.800 Wonderful um. But regardless. On the other side of the 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:02.120 street is what I call the Theona Pastrami, the Pantheon 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:06.200 at Lanyard's Delhi all right, now, that was the first 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.480 stop on the Mallard food tour. I ordered the number 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.240 ten on a kaiser or ride, depending on the weekend. 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:13.600 Sometimes I don't go there every week. I go there, 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.240 you know, once in a while. It's pretty expensive. But 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.800 I I got kaiser number ten on a kaiser with 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.280 the Russian dressing and all that, and the fries and 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:27.240 a large side of fries. They're pretty good, and it's 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.520 the nectar of the gods. But it wasn't open. Even 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.280 though a lot of restaurants in l A are now open, 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:33.680 they weren't open. I had to get I had to 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.000 eat in my car. So I parked right across the 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:39.320 street from MacArthur Park and watched all the all the 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.320 nonsense that was taking place there, and I had my 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:45.280 windows up and we were eating from the Pantheona Pastrami. 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:51.560 So we then traveled to uh right near skid Row. 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:53.840 Of course, all of l A now is skid Row. 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:55.480 It used to be just a few blocks in downtown 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.400 Los Angeles, but now all of l A is kid Row, 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:02.360 and I found a really cool spot. My wife she's 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.320 into going to like kind of junk antique stores and 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:09.080 finding hidden gems. So it just play called Old Good Things. 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:13.600 You ever been to Old Good Things? No? No, but 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:18.440 I know exactly where this is going. So no, I mean, no, 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:20.360 you don't know. I mean it's a it's a cool place. 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.800 I know. They're all kinds of like it's a mitch 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:29.040 mash of old props from movies, signs, uh, and they 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.200 pretty much just put all this stuff together. They had like, 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.680 if you want to buy a Starbucks sign for your 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.800 house to decorate, they have it. They had a Seize 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.280 candy sign you could buy. They had these big lights 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.560 from the movie, you know, old movie sets back in 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.920 the day and all that. It's essentially a place where 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:47.840 if you're an interior designer, you would go to find unique, 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.520 quirky stuff that you can charge a fortune for that 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.760 you don't pay a fortune for. All Right, So we 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:55.280 were we were there and I and my wife wanted 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:56.840 to buy a bunch of stuff, and I convinced her. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.880 I said, listen, let's uh, let's let's hit the brakes 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:01.680 on that let's wait and see if we can find 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.080 something better. Just make sure you really want this, you know, 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.639 so she did, but I have a feeling we'll be 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.880 back there. You can buy a phone booth if you want, 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.000 you know, I mean, it's just a weird, weird ship 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.200 that you probably wouldn't want or need. But if you 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:20.000 want to like decorate something weird, you can find weird stuff. So, um, 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:21.920 pretty cool. I can admit it was pretty cool walking 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.480 around it was. It was pretty much overwhelmed. They had 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.159 like a pink elephant and like, it's like all this 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.520 weird ship. So with with that revelation, with what you 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.440 guys did on that that wonderful day where you're having 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.440 I'm not done, by the way, I'm not done. It's 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.159 just the middle part of the day, I know. But 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:43.600 where does all the photos and the gallery sent from 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:47.000 your your wife E's Instagram account, Where does that come from? Then? 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.400 Because it looks like you guys had bought a healthy 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:58.800 amount of ornaments and old school artifacts. Uh, I'm not 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.760 sure what. I don't really, I don't check out Instagram 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:03.680 very much. I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to. 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:05.800 But my wife does put a lot of photos off 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:09.160 of random, random stuff. But now, I mean we bought 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:13.280 a few things over the last week, but nothing that 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.119 I remember that was that crazy. I mean every post signal, 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.600 the signal we had was that was pretty crazy. We've 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.560 got a traffic signal. Everything he doesn't need a traffic signal, 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:25.080 but everything that she's posted online, I think like, no way, 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:31.159 better prove that, No way that better purchase. No. No, 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:35.200 you know, um, I am pretty frugal and uh, a 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.800 lot of stuff like you don't really need it, you 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:41.679 can't really take it with you, and so what are 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.359 you doing? But all right, so you did this at 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.679 what time? Did you have Langers at? Exactly? I had 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:52.879 langers at like one thirty, had lunch breakfast. No, I 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.680 don't need practice. I was fasting, so and I broke 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.480 the fast at Langers. And then I went to downtown, 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.600 did a little shopping there, went out to Burbank. Burt 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.960 Bank had been there in awhile bur Bang and walked 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.000 around there some stores, and bur Bank went out to 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:10.920 beautiful Sherman Oaks to pick up my mail. I text 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:12.240 you to see if you were there. You said, no, 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.160 of course not, I'm not here. Why would I be here, 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.960 you texted like a Saturday night at seven o'clock. Well, 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.600 that's when I went there. Be sure to catch live 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.359 editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:27.159 Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.040 I Heart Radio app. Be sure to catch live editions 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:32.639 of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am eastern 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.760 eleven pm Pacific. So anyway, I've picked up the mail, 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.320 and then we traveled down. It was very uncomfortable on 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:40.159 the four oh five. I tried to stay on the 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.119 east side of the four oh five. Traveled down the 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.040 four oh five. They're past the Getty Center and U C. 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.600 L A and that the cemetery, and we made our 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:54.840 way to Culver City because we then had, by my choice, 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:59.480 our dinner at what I call now Langer's is the 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:03.680 pant on a postromy but Tito's is the Temple of Tacos. 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:08.959 Tito's Tacos the home of the Gringo Taco just at 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.720 the edge of the it's like the end of the 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:15.600 flat Earth. Kyrie Irving would say, it's right against the 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.879 four oh five freeway. Literally across the street is the 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:23.080 freeway from Tito's Tacos the home of my friend, the 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:27.240 lake Great Alex Russo said, the Gringo taco and it's 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.480 this crunchy taco with neon orange cheese on top, and 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:35.600 he's amazing. My wife hates it. I love it. She 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:37.760 hate it. She doesn't like it. She hates it. She 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:39.760 puts up with it, but she doesn't like it. Oh boy, 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.760 didn't think it's very good. She's crazy. Yes, I mean, 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.800 no one's perfect, but that's insane. It's blasphemy. I tell 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:47.600 her that you should be crucified for saying that. How 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:49.760 dare you? But she puts up with it, and so 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:52.920 they were not having people eat it, Tito. So we 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:54.359 had to take it to a park over there in 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:57.440 Culver City, right near what movie studios? Over there? There's 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:00.600 a little park that we went to. And is that 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.359 that's That's not Warner Brothers? What is over there? Is that? Parents? 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:05.959 Which lot is over in Culver City? I thought it's 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:08.159 I thought it was Warner Brothers. Is it Warner Bros? 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:11.840 I thought Warner Brothers was out in Burbank? That's I 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:14.320 think they have two lots of that also, Warner Brothers. 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:16.040 I thought there was two the one off of like, 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:19.560 was it Burbank Boulevard? Well, I know when I worked 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:22.000