WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: The Bully Gets Offended 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 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 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.439 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.520 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:36.239 Air everywhere, and a happy Friday to you as we 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:41.120 are recording this podcast in real time early on Friday, 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.920 the fifteenth day of December, Ben Mallor and Danny g 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.360 Radio because five. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:52.080 Overnights are not enough. As we are here every Friday, 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:57.760 Saturday and Sunday original audio content. You have to follow 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.280 the podcast. I assume you're already following because you're listening, 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:04.120 but we are available all weekend long here with new 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:09.640 podcasts and Danny. Have you recovered from the Raiders scoring 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.839 over sixty points in an NFL game? A Raider team 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:18.520 that has been unable to cross twenty most games putting 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:23.679 up sixty three points. That was absolutely bonkers on Thursday 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:24.480 night football. 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:29.600 It's not often that I'm comfortable during a Raiders game, 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.920 usually I'm biting my nails, I'm pacing. I usually can 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.160 just have the game on my iPad as I'm finishing 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.160 up at work and just have it on in the background. 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.320 In this case, they scored so much that it interrupted 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:46.800 me working on the podcast, so I got home late. 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.200 I just hope they saved some points for next week 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:50.960 at the Chiefs. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.200 Well, the key to this, if you want to score, 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.560 is to have the other team just hand you the 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.040 ball via door dash and just drop it off at 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.560 your front door. So it was very kind of the 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.520 Chargers who played. And I said this on the Overnight 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.880 Show as I it reminds me of when I covered 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.320 the Clippers in the nineties and every once in a 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.280 while they you know, they passed through a lot of coaches, 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.760 and sometimes the players just revolted on the coach and 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:20.760 decided they were not going to play, and then they wouldn't, 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.680 they wouldn't, and they would get the coach fired. Usually 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.000 it took more than one game. But in the NFL, 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.600 it's not like Brandon Staley, the coach of the Chargers, 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:34.320 was you know, was locked into the job. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.480 It reminds me of when Josh McDaniels would speak like, 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.280 get this guy out of here. He was the coach 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.200 of my favorite team and I didn't like him. So 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.800 I can't imagine what Charger fans, the few we know 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:52.200 must think about all this. But blessing in disguise. Right 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.200 as we're recording this, he's not fired yet, but that 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.880 probably will be coming in an hour or two, I'm guessing. 0:02:59.240 --> 0:02:59.440 Yeah. 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.400 I mean, the story is he's the ownership group has 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:07.200 called Stalyan for a meeting, so that's generally a bad sign. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.400 That doesn't Yeah, that doesn't seem like a great time. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.640 So yeah, I mean, we're doing this on early Friday morning, 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:20.359 and the plan is they will they will get together. 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.280 I mean, you gotta fire the coach. You have to 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:25.000 fire the coach you fire. 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.079 This is the fifth year in a row that they 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:33.320 have gone under their expected win total, which was nine 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.840 and a half this year, by the way, and they 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.520 are standing at five games. Pretty crazy when you look 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:43.480 at that stat. They're always a paper tiger. They always 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.480 blame it on injuries. They always have quote unquote bad 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.320 luck with close games. When do you just say that 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.600 they're a piece of crap team in the NFL messed 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:57.200 up by putting them in LA Well, yeah, I. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.440 Mean that's it has not gone like they expect. There 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:01.840 are a bunch of people, though, I go to these 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:03.600 Charger games sometimes and there are a bunch of people 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.040 that work for the Chargers on game day that still 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.120 drive up from San Diego. It's an odd it's an 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.360 odd thing. But the fans, the actual fans of the 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.159 old San Diego Chargers, not a lot of them making 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:20.760 the drive from San Diego up I five and crossing 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.880 over the four or five there in the hood in Inglewood. 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:26.960 But yeah, that's a that's a bad I mean, the 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:31.279 Vegas odds makers that set the point the total for wins, 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.240 I mean, they're pretty spot on right. If you're you're 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.240 underachieving if you don't get to that level once in 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.200 five years. And the Chargers have not hit on all 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:46.240 cylinders since what Ladanian Tomlinson was playing for them. 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:46.440 Is that? 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.560 Am I going back far enough? No? 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:49.240 You're right. 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:54.000 I have nightmares about that dude running in touchdowns and 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:58.440 throwing in touchdowns against my favorite team. You're right, that's 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:03.880 when the Chargers were a threat to beat any team. Now, 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.479 who would have thought, especially at the start, of the 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:10.160 season because we always hear quote unquote experts picking them 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.760 to go all the way or making it deep into 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.560 the playoffs, and they always wind up wedding the bed. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.000 It'll happen again. Brandon Staley is not going to be 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.919 coaching next year. The Spanos family will will have to 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.960 get rid of him, and then they'll hire some whether 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:30.000 it's Belichick or some other hot shot coach, and the 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.200 media is going to hype up the Chargers. All they 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:34.800 did I had to do was get rid of Brandon 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:38.960 Staley and now it's gonna be sunshine, rainbows and lollipops. 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:44.039 And just like last year, Justin Fields won MVP of 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.919 the offseason, and they didn't make a coaching change, but 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:49.640 they made a couple of roster moves right They added 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.760 a wide receiver, they made some other moves, and we 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.719 were all excited and saw how that worked out. 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.359 And by the way, congrats to Antonio Pierce. You and 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.000 I both called it. If he could get some wins 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.719 under his belt, he would have a really good shot 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:07.000 at getting the job. Based on the way Mark Davis 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:11.120 was making those facial expressions last night, I don't see 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.200 how he can't give Harris a long term contract. 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.279 Yeah, I mean the Gruden rumors are still out there though, 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.599 that he might come. 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.239 Through, that that ship has sailed. 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:23.720 Look at you, you're all in. 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.200 But I was before this game. I mean, I liked 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:27.640 what I saw. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.680 I know it was two New York teams that they 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.040 beat up on, but I just like, I like his swag. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.960 The moment he was on the sideline as the leader 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.279 of the team, it just looked right and it felt right. 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:40.760 We're doing a sporty podcast, you know we're doing. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.160 I know I like it doing sporty. We better transition 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.320 before half our audience. 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.640 I know people don't tune in for sporty. They don't 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.800 want that. They want to hear nonsense. But yeah, I'm 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.520 pulling for Antonio Pierce because, as as I told you, 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:58.000 I one of my buddies from from high school. His 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.240 sister is very good friends with Antonio Pearce has known 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.280 him since he was coaching in high school. And possibly 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.120 if he gets the Raider job, she might end up 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.840 moving moving to Vegas so and working for the Raiders, 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.520 which would be which be cook. I think then I 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.960 might be able to get the tickets or something, you know, 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.520 and then then you can go. We'll go together. Anyway. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:25.200 We have eat, drink and be merry, Unappreciated comedy and 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.560 dream Weaver and we'll get to all that. We also 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.640 have the Word of the Week. So it's a jam 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.680 packed pod and we just started with about seven or 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:37.880 eight minutes of hot sports talk. So anyway, yeah, Joe, 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.480 I mean that Raider game was so crazy. I'm like, 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:44.760 I'm watching it. You know, these games Thursday night Football, 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.200 coming on after the game doing the over reread show, 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.840 I'm like, well, these games are usually terrible, and that 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.160 game was supposed to be bad. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.200 Rich Davis told us on the afternoon show to take 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:59.400 the under neither team would score twenty. I try to 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.960 tell him what the game meant for Antonio Pears, and 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:05.239 he brushed me off. This was a game I was told, 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.400 don't even bother to watch it. And then they score 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:12.080 a franchise record, and I mean, they broke all kinds 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:13.160 of records last night. 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:14.160 It was insane. 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:19.560 And that Jack Jones interception, it was a throwaway. The 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.760 Patriots kicked him off their team, and that was the 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.920 most athletic defensive move I've seen all season on the 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.600 Raider team. And their defense has been pretty decent. I 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.440 had to keep watching that back. I think it was 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:36.400 underappreciated because of what happened with everything else. That one 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:40.319 handed grab as he was floating in the other direction. 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.760 That was like some mentalist shit in Vegas. That was 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:44.439 so awesome. 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.280 Yeah, and you wonder why more defensive backs can't make 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.360 that because he just he read the play, he saw 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.000 what was going to happen, and he reacted. And you 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.000 see that in basketball where guys will jump the passing lane. 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.600 You don't see that often on that kind of play 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.960 in the NFL, but you would think think there'll be 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.880 other guys that'll copy that and try to mimic what 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:06.880 was going on. But when I'm watching these games on 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:08.840 Thursday night that I don't really have any interest in, 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:10.959 and I'm not a Raider fan or a Charger fan, 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:12.360 I don't even skinning the game. I do go to 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.000 the Charger games, but I'm not a Charger guy, and 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:16.719 I'm always looking for the story and I'm like, Wow, 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.959 there's gonna be nothing really here. It's gonna be a 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:23.240 you know, a seventeen, a twenty to seventeen game, and 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:27.800 you know you got backup quarterback here for the Chargers 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.160 and then that happens, so I was able to wax 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.040 poet it, so I was happy about that. Before we 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.160 get to eat, drink and be merry. Do want to 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.520 shamelessly promote there's a little TV show that is popping up. 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.520 It's called Benny Versus the Penny, and it'll be airing 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:47.840 all over the country on regional cable television starting later today. 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:52.480 The first airing, if I'm reading my notes properly, is 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.439 in Chicago, seven o'clock local time in Chicago, which is 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:01.160 five o'clock out here in LA on NBC Sports Chicago 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.600 the Bulls and Blackhawks. I do not believe we're playing, 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.000 so that's a prime spot for us at seven o'clock 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.280 in Chicago. We'll be on late night after the Celtics 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:14.280 game on NBC Sports Boston there Magic or playing the 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.200 Celtics at the Garden there and that's our hub. The 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.480 show's produced out of NBC Sports Boston, so we'll be 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.880 on there at eleven and eleven thirty one on Philly 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.320 tonight at eleven, and a couple of showings in the 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:30.679 Bay Area today starting at six pm, and then we're 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.760 on all day we have three airrings on Spectrum Sports 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.880 Net SoCal on Saturday, and there's other airings on these channels. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.160 I'm just giving you some of the ones I know, 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.120 and then the big slot for us in New York 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:47.079 on Sunday morning. I'll remind you on Sunday, but we're 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.880 on SNY, the channel of the Mets are on in 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:55.400 New York Sunday morning at eleven thirty in the am. 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.160 But eat drinking me Marry. So we strive, Danny. We strive, 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:03.599 both of us profecstional radio guys, broadcasters. We strive for excellence, 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.000 whether it's the fifth hour, you with Covino and Rich 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.880 or me with the gas bag buddies I have there 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.080 in the overnight. But the goal is to provide your 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:16.280 ears with a cacophony of goodness. And as you escape, 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.240 you unlock the door. I remember seeing this one as 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:23.920 a get the key to imagination. Beyond it is another dimension, Danny, 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:28.400 a dimension of sound, a dimension of mind. You're moving 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:32.520 in to a land of both shadow and substance of 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.800 things and ideas. You've crossed over into the Mallard zone, 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.160 otherwise known as a twilight zone. But this is a 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:44.760 yearly podcast. I now present, without further interruption, the twenty 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:50.959 twenty three Mallard Ugly Sweater Party postgame show. Nobody else 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:56.160 has this content, Danny. It is a global exclusive. iHeartMedia 0:11:56.520 --> 0:12:00.680 sparing no expense. Hey, the company paid a shopping four 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.920 dollars and twenty eight cents to win a ginning war, 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:08.000 so we're very happy. Last year we paid the company 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.280 paid three dollars and eighty eight cents, So we've added 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:18.040 value here. That's forty extra cents. Inflation is a mofo, Danny. 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.240 WHOA You could buy a Panthers ticket with that? 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:25.520 Yes, yes, And you're better off keeping the money though, 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.160 and than buying a Panther's ticket. But what can you 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:33.280 expect from the pod? Post game exclusive never before told stories. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.400 We're gonna go deep into the weeds. This year was 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.360 an absolute blast. In fact, if you watch Benny Versus 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.480 the Penny, you will see something that has never been 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.559 broadcast before involving this event. And I'm gonna tell you 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.440 when it happens, or how it happens, or what it is, 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.640 but just file that away, file out away. Something related 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.400 to this event made the television show. But we had 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.080 a packed house. We had a great turnout and my 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.840 wife's plan was accurate. Now last year we had a 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:05.600 Halloween party and a Christmas party. Too many parties, so 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:10.600 if you have one, everyone shows them. If you have two, 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.640 people choose one and they don't go to the other. 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.360 So we had we had one. We had Radio Royalty, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:19.840 big radio celebrities at Eddie Garcia made the appearance Iowa 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:24.800 Sam Mike Harmon from The Jesus Show, Bobo on the radio, 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.920 a legend Bobo who doesn't really work at our place anymore, 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.480 but he did and I love Bobo. Rob Parker stop 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:37.600 by with buddy of his, the great Art Martinez, the 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.400 Prince of Darkness, League Line Ted Sobol. They have a 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:44.240 bunch of other people that made the guest list, and 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.040 then my wife had a bunch of her friends, so 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.960 we had a bunch of police officers ex law enforcement people. 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:54.680 There was a rambunctious night and sustenance is that a 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:59.000 word I can say? I think this early in the morning. Yeah, 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:05.680 food was provided, not to say grub exactly. And the 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:10.400 menu we had the traditional nacho bar which is very popular. 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:16.240 Kirkland brand pizza both pepperoni and cheese pizza. Here's a 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:20.920 big one, Danny. A charcuterie board with various meats, cheeses, 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.520 and crackers or Kuca River. Yeah, I just you know, 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.680 I say it my own way. And we had a 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.560 chocolate bar. I told you last weekend. I was busy 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.920 making chocolate as the chocolate tear, and I posted some 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:36.640 photos on Instagram and also on Facebook if you want 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:38.680 to see. And I'm pretty proud of my chocolate. I'm 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:42.000 not gonna lie, Danny. My chocolate game's on point, I think. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.000 But I had Hanukka chocolates. I had Christmas chocolates good 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.600 for everyone. I didn't have any I didn't have any 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.840 atheist chocolates. But those are just chocolates, so any of that. 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:56.280 But people loved the bakery, Benny's Bakery. I made homemade 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:01.560 chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies and every tasty morsel 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:06.880 finger licking good. And I can report exclusively on this 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:11.560 postgame coverage here. On the fifth hours, everyone ate drank 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.280 and was merry that the chocolate chip mixed with the 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.080 peanut butter was a big hit. It was chewey ooey, 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:22.000 gooey goodness, and it actually went quicker than the oatmeal 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.720 raisin But the main reason I make the oatmeal raisin 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.440 is because my wife likes so she actually is happy 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.640 that people don't eat them as much. They did eat 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:31.920 a lot of them, but they didn't need as much 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.240 as the chocolate chip ones. In fact, I was told 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.240 I have to double the chocolate chip for the family 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:41.480 version of the party. So we've got that now, turning 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:46.360 the page, Danny, we had unappreciated comedy. As we continue 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.920 our in depth team coverage of the twenty twenty three 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:54.280 malar Ugly Sweater party, the night got off to a 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:59.360 rather bizarre start. People showed up around the time the 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.440 party started. There are a few people early. Mike Harmon 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.880 was the first one there, by the way, he was 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:06.640 the first one there, and then there were a bunch 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.200 of other people. But my friend Art Martinez, you know 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:11.960 from these parties. He's been in these things over the years. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.040 Oh and I worked with him for a few years 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.120 at NBC Sports Radio back in the day. 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.160 So I've known Art for I don't know to say 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:20.880 how long I'm gonna date myself, but we go way 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.960 back to local radio in LA and I love Art. 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.840 Art's the greatest board op I've ever had. He's amazing 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.600 at what he does. He's the big engineer at Westwood One, 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:31.960 and he's. 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.200 Famous for always shutting down your parties pretty much. 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.000 And that happened, of course again we'll get to that. 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.680 But he's a Fox Sports Radio veteran. He's a US 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.760 Marine veteran, which is much more proud of it should 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.040 be served in Desert storm. We tell all kinds of 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.720 stories anyway. So Artie loves to kind of pak the bear, 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:56.240 and he loves and he wanted to have some fun 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.640 with the Prince of Darkness, the original Prince of Darkness 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:02.720 league line, which is not hard to press his button. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.240 You know that. I mean you had your run ins 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.000 with Lee. I mean you guys, I didn't get along now, 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:08.639 but you had when you first met him. He was 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:14.280 kind of a douche slightly racist, yes, so, which is 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.720 funny because he's like pretty liberal, which is odd so 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:23.280 easy to get a reaction. So art goes up to 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.119 Lee and tells him this in my kitchen. He tells 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:31.960 a kind of an off colored joke in a dead 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.800 pan delivery, and he was very serious as he was 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:39.119 telling that. He tried to be the straight man. Now 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.359 I happened to hear that joke earlier, because he tried 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:46.760 that on me and I ignored it. So, knowing what 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.560 I know about art, and I knew this guy, this 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.080 guy's he didn't he didn't mean what he's saying. He's 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:56.919 busting balls, so I know where he's at in that realm. 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:01.480 And nevertheless, Lee apparently did not either that or he 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:06.679 chose to ignore his ear plugs, and he almost threw hands. 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:10.560 We almost had a punch of heart, and it took 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:15.280 a little while for Lee to calm down and realize 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:16.560 that he was not serious. 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:21.560 And now Lee is usually the one offending other people. Yeah, yeah, 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:25.359 So I mean, was this racial? Was it religious? Like? 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.919 What tone was this joke that set off Bullie? 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:34.640 It was a religious joke. I will not repeat it 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:38.440 in a friendly company, but you know, it's just a joke. 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:43.000 It was just kidding around and Lee got really really 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.919 upset later on, though, you'll be happy to know the 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:49.200 tradition continues because one of my buddies, my guy Hunter, 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:51.440 who I don't know if you've met him, he's he's 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.439 my my like, my only friend left from high school 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.320 that I still socialize with, is this guy Hunter. We're 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.640 gambling buddies. We go to Vegas maybe once a year, 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:01.480 and we's a bunch of money and we think we're 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:05.560 gonna win and all this. Anyway, so he's at the 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:08.280 party and he he not really met Lee, and so 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.520 he had heard about Lee. He's known I've known Lee, 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:12.639 we've done we did shows together a long time and 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:16.680 Lee and Lee's retired from radio and we see him 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.840 once a year at this thing. So my buddy's like, 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:20.440 all right, I'm gonna get into it. Lee, I'm gonna 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.160 go political because Lee used to host shows at KFI, 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:27.960 the big political talk station in La So he goes 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.760 out to the back of the Malor mansion and he's 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:36.399 talking politics and the Prince of Darkness, Lee Kleine, the 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:39.639 original Prince of Dartaness. He works himself into a lather 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:44.400 talking about politics. So and my buddy, knowing what he knows, 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.520 he tried like everyone else, just like Art Martinez tried 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:51.440 to press buttons. My buddy like, hey, I'll press some buttons, 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:56.119 and so he starts. He starts tapping buttons, and Lee's 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.080 getting more and more worked up. And a group of 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:03.520 my wife's friend approached Lee. They were concerned that he 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:05.479 was getting two out of control, so they told him 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.919 to calm down. How do you think Lee handled. 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:11.080 That the same way women do when you tell them 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:11.840 to calm down. 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:18.840 Yeah. Yeah, it escalated the situation. It was interesting. It 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:22.360 was interesting, but nobody threw any punches. As far as 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.359 I know, I didn't see anything at any reports of that. 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.399 Other of that. People were getting along and were singing, dancing, partying. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.360 It was all all good in the neighborhood. And as 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:38.680 far as the the dream Weaver is concerned, the highlight 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:42.399 for me, the highlight for I love hanging out with 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:45.720 radio people and telling old radio stories and all that stuff. 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.520 I'll become that guy. I'm that guy. So we had 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:54.720 a passionate conversation. It was me my friend Ted Sobel, 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:57.879 who briefly worked at Fox Sports Radio is mostly a 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:03.240 news radio guy and did network NFL radio studio hosting 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:06.840 for a long time. Just recently stopped doing that. So 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:11.159 Sobl's there, Iowa Sam, a couple other people, some of 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:13.159 them in the business, some of them out of the business, 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.880 but a lot of them were mostly from the audio wars. 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:21.560 Give me an example. Ted Sobil loves to point out 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:25.560 that he's friends with Sandy Kofax, not just casual friends, 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:28.960 like they're like their buddies. Sandy lives in Florida, but 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:33.280 they talk quite a bit, and Ted, much like Pat O'Brien, 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:35.000 likes to drop names from time to time. He did 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:39.520 point out that he also had a phone conversation this 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:42.840 past week with a gentleman who's rather famous, who I'm 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:47.239 gonna admit I did not know was still alive. I 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:53.840 thought this person was not with us anymore. But lator yes, 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:59.920 that is absolutely correct, unless it is not my budd 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.360 Ted Sobell, he is friends. He had a phone conversation 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:08.120 this week with mel Brooks in that wild I thought 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:09.359 mel Brooks had passed. 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:11.240 Away, but he's Wow. I did too. 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:17.040 He's ninety seven years old. Seven years old. 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:19.480 That's Dick van Dijke Territory. 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:25.520 Yeah, he's still going. That's nuts. And if you're younger, 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:27.359 you know who mel Brooks is. I mean, the guy's 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:33.000 a Hollywood ken That blaze he made blazing saddles right 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:36.679 that that movie could never win the white women at 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:41.000 exactly with Richard Pryor and all those those knuckleheads in 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:44.960 that movie. Spaceball's made a bunch of parody movies the 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:49.879 producers young Frankenstein were a bunch of a bunch of 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:54.960 famous stuff And anyway, that's just randomly came up. So 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:57.520