Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in
Speaker 2: the air everywhere.
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller. Danny G is away.
Speaker 4: The Vegan will be in at some point, but it's
Speaker 4: not about Danny G. It's not about the vegans. We
Speaker 4: slide into this Friday, the fifteenth day of November.
Speaker 3: The man of the hour, my brother in audio arms.
Speaker 4: Who has been kind enough to hang out with us,
Speaker 4: even though he has no contractual obligation to do this
Speaker 4: and can do whatever the hell he wants now, the
Speaker 4: Great Eddie Garcia. Eddie, I love you, man, Thanks for
Speaker 4: thanks for coming on. It's been it's been a crazy,
Speaker 4: crazy week obviously for you. I've I've been through this before.
Speaker 4: It doesn't make it any better. I know you've You've
Speaker 4: been in the business a long time. What is the
Speaker 4: last you know, a few days been life for you, Eddie.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's been crazy for all. Everyone love you,
Speaker 4: but what's it been like for you.
Speaker 5: Well, when I listened the first night after the news
Speaker 5: came out that they were letting me go and thank
Speaker 5: you for your kind words, I really appreciate it. And
Speaker 5: I texted Coop, our producer, and his response is kind
Speaker 5: of how I've been feeling.
Speaker 1: This is weird.
Speaker 5: So that's how I feel. It just feels weird. I
Speaker 5: don't know that it's completely hit me. I'm not angry,
Speaker 5: I'm not bitter, but I am sad. You know, you
Speaker 5: can't work for twenty three years at a place and
Speaker 5: then have it end kind of like with a snap
Speaker 5: of the fingers and then not be sad about it.
Speaker 5: But you know, it was a great run. I never
Speaker 5: dreamed I'd have a job for twenty three years, that's
Speaker 5: for sure. And a matter of fact, I just had
Speaker 5: my twenty third anniversary in the end of October. And
Speaker 5: when every time you hit that, you kind of reflect
Speaker 5: on it and think, man, it's been so long, and
Speaker 5: it also doesn't seem that long. I know you and
Speaker 5: I have talked about this when we think, oh, my god,
Speaker 5: that was ten years ago or something like that.
Speaker 1: It seems like it was not that long ago.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's just weird. It's weird. It's been I
Speaker 5: was thinking about this too. It's been twenty three years
Speaker 5: since I've looked for a job. I'm not even sure
Speaker 5: exactly how to go about it in some respects. But yeah,
Speaker 5: it's yeah, I mean it's I will say this, and
Speaker 5: I talked to my wife about this, and hopefully it continues.
Speaker 5: Every time I've ever lost a job, I've gotten a
Speaker 5: better one, and this one will be hard to top,
Speaker 5: but I'm hopeful that that will happen.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I just want you to know.
Speaker 4: I Lorena, who is new to the to the Overnight Show,
Speaker 4: and it's kind of new to radio. She was she
Speaker 4: was an absolute wreck. I went in and she had
Speaker 4: not experienced like anything.
Speaker 3: Like this. I know you've been. You were there when.
Speaker 4: I I got whacked back in nine, and I remember
Speaker 4: that that was that was an odd time.
Speaker 3: You know, they didn't know what was going on, and
Speaker 3: then they.
Speaker 4: Brought they brought some people back and all that. So
Speaker 4: they you did the show Sunday night. I was away
Speaker 4: and people think that like I somehow knew.
Speaker 3: I had no idea.
Speaker 4: I knew the company was laying people off. I didn't know,
Speaker 4: you know, how that would affect affect our show. But
Speaker 4: I was in Kansas City actually was texting you over
Speaker 4: the weekend. I had told you that I met a
Speaker 4: bunch of listeners and several of them brought your name up,
Speaker 4: and we were attacking me because of your game show,
Speaker 4: prowess and the hockey. One guy was wearing a Penguin's
Speaker 4: jersey that showed up and they're like, we need more hockey,
Speaker 4: and we know, more Eddie and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: So I text you over the weekend, and.
Speaker 4: Then I was flying back and I was actually sleeping
Speaker 4: and I heard I said this on the air the
Speaker 4: other night, but I had heard what it had. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because if you had sent some messages some other people
Speaker 4: that also had lost gigs and Sevy messages and all that.
Speaker 4: But so you they call you up on Monday morning
Speaker 4: or afternoon, I mean you sleep during the day, so
Speaker 4: it's got to be somewhat later in the day, right,
Speaker 4: and kind of walk us through that part of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got a text from our boss, Scott Shapiro,
Speaker 5: and it said, give me a call when you can.
Speaker 5: I have not physically seen Scott in I don't know
Speaker 5: ten years because of the shift we work.
Speaker 3: I know it is and I don't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I don't live close by, so there's no
Speaker 5: reason for you to like pop in and I live
Speaker 5: like thirty five miles away, and I you know, I
Speaker 5: don't just you know, so he has texted me before
Speaker 5: or just to say, hey, Ben's gonna be out, do
Speaker 5: you mind hosting with Brian?
Speaker 3: Know?
Speaker 5: Are you cool with that? So it wasn't you know,
Speaker 5: like I saw this text on like, oh crap. But
Speaker 5: as soon as I heard his voice, I knew either
Speaker 5: one of two things happened. Either someone died or I've
Speaker 5: been let go because I could hear it in his voice,
Speaker 5: So it was it was obviously the second one. So
Speaker 5: and Don Martin was on the call, the big boss,
Speaker 5: I guess, and I got God knows.
Speaker 1: When I've seen him.
Speaker 5: But anyway, I mean, you know, yeah, they had they
Speaker 5: said very nice things, and Don even mentioned specifically you know,
Speaker 5: Ben was let go and we brought him back. So
Speaker 5: you never know how it goes, you know. And I'm
Speaker 5: not gonna wait for them to call me back or anything.
Speaker 3: Like that.
Speaker 5: But I mean he did say that, so maybe maybe
Speaker 5: there's a glimmer of hope that I can come back
Speaker 5: at some point.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm all for it. Ed you know that, and
Speaker 4: you're you're exactly right. I I got I go on, Jane.
Speaker 4: I remember the exact day. It was January twentieth of nine.
Speaker 4: They were swearing in Barack Obama as the president and
Speaker 4: there was a mass layoff the company had at that time,
Speaker 4: and they didn't tell me when I at that time
Speaker 4: that they might bring me back. I had taken some
Speaker 4: fill in gigs in Boston at EI, I did some
Speaker 4: stuff actually at the Angel Station, Ama thirty in Anaheim
Speaker 4: at the Big A and some other gigs like randomly
Speaker 4: I'd popped up on and then they called me months later.
Speaker 4: So but it was six months and twenty six days.
Speaker 4: Hopefully for you it won't. But yeah, I mean, like
Speaker 4: you said, you're out there. You've got a great body
Speaker 4: of work. I've done this a long time and you
Speaker 4: got connections I know in the hockey world. So there
Speaker 4: will be something, whether it's coming back to the Fox
Speaker 4: Sports Radio or whether or not you get something else,
Speaker 4: it'll be there. But one of the cool things about
Speaker 4: this and there's not anything really great about it.
Speaker 3: But one of the things for me is we've both
Speaker 3: lost our parents and whatnot.
Speaker 4: We've been to many funerals, and you go to funerals
Speaker 4: and people say how wonderful people are and how great
Speaker 4: they are.
Speaker 3: But they're dead. You know, you're very much alive. But
Speaker 3: I hope you felt the love.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was unbelievable how many people and you
Speaker 4: don't know this kind of stuff, like we kind of
Speaker 4: hide out at night, but you don't really realize who's listening,
Speaker 4: and how we affect are able to help people out,
Speaker 4: be part of their routine, and you.
Speaker 3: Really touched a lot of people's lives.
Speaker 4: You You're very proud of yourself, Eddie, because, uh, not
Speaker 4: only when I was meeting people, but but then the
Speaker 4: news came down, they were able. I was able to
Speaker 4: talk about it on the air and you heard a
Speaker 4: little bit of that. But the entire night, I mean,
Speaker 4: no people all over you know are p ones, but
Speaker 4: people I'd never heard from Eddie reached out to me
Speaker 4: to yell at me, tell me what an ahole I am,
Speaker 4: which I agree with, and then how much they love you.
Speaker 4: So what was that part of this by what's it
Speaker 4: been like to get all the love from the various people.
Speaker 1: It's been awesome. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 5: I know you gave out the email address and also
Speaker 5: the social media there. It's funny because it's Eddie on Fox.
Speaker 5: It needs to be Eddie not on Fox anymore, I guess,
Speaker 5: but I have not And if anybody wants to send
Speaker 5: an email, I will respond at some point, but it's
Speaker 5: Eddie on Fox at gmail dot com. I've gotten probably
Speaker 5: like seventy emails which I haven't responded to yet because
Speaker 5: I just kind of want to take my time, but
Speaker 5: I will. I promise I will respond to all of them.
Speaker 5: And then I did go on social media after you
Speaker 5: made the announcement on the air, and then kind of,
Speaker 5: you know, made the announcement myself and responded to some messages.
Speaker 5: So no, it's very humbling. My wife has talked to
Speaker 5: me about this, and she was, you know, we met
Speaker 5: in part because of Fox Sports Radio, so that's, you know,
Speaker 5: another thing that that job is connected to for sure,
Speaker 5: how you impact people's lives, and I don't you and
Speaker 5: I don't think about that really when we're just having
Speaker 5: fun doing our job. And doing something we're passionate about.
Speaker 5: But when you hear people say, you know stuff like
Speaker 5: you know, I was going through a tough time and
Speaker 5: you guys helped me get.
Speaker 1: Through it, or you know.
Speaker 5: I mean, one I'll never forget was getting a message
Speaker 5: from a guy who was dying and he just said, hey,
Speaker 5: I'm not going to be around much longer. I just
Speaker 5: want to say thanks for all the good times you
Speaker 5: guys gave me. And you're just like, geez, wow, it's
Speaker 5: but no, it's been great. I really appreciate it all.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: I got a call from the Fresno State play by
Speaker 5: play guy Paul Leffler, who I've only met once in
Speaker 5: person and have a message with a few times. You know,
Speaker 5: I'm obviously very proud of my little school and talk
Speaker 5: about it as often as I can. And he messaged
Speaker 5: me which was kind of out of the blue, which
Speaker 5: was really cool. But he's obviously a radio guy, so
Speaker 5: he gets it. So yeah, lots of calls, lots of emails,
Speaker 5: lots of messages. It's all very much appreciated. And as
Speaker 5: you know, it's not like we you don't ever get
Speaker 5: a chance to say goodbye. I know, I know, you're
Speaker 5: there one day and you're gone to net and then
Speaker 5: you just kind of like deal with it.
Speaker 4: I was just happy I got to talk about you
Speaker 4: because I've been in situations before in my career where
Speaker 4: you know, people I've worked with have been you know,
Speaker 4: let go, and I just we just had to pretend
Speaker 4: like they didn't exist, and at least and I.
Speaker 3: Told them, I was like, and they knew it.
Speaker 4: I mean, you've been such a big part of what
Speaker 4: I've done in Fox Sports Radio that I had to
Speaker 4: be able to to talk about you and and to
Speaker 4: celebrate your career, which is not over.
Speaker 3: I mean, you'll probably uh get a better job.
Speaker 4: Make me look like a jackass, but uh but but no,
Speaker 4: I mean, and I was thinking about I said this
Speaker 4: a little bit on the air, like, you know, we've
Speaker 4: been together.
Speaker 3: We you know, we started out.
Speaker 4: We were both you're a little older than I am,
Speaker 4: but I was in my twenties. I think when I
Speaker 4: met you, and you know now we're kind of like
Speaker 4: middle aged angry dudes and stuff. We're both single guys,
Speaker 4: are you know, we we've lost parents and whatnot and
Speaker 4: been through Uh, I'm not sure when you I don't
Speaker 4: know when you when exactly did you starty?
Speaker 3: What year I'm trying to do the math on this.
Speaker 4: I'm no malor math, but it was what year did
Speaker 4: you start at the company, because you remember.
Speaker 5: Of twenty It was two thousand and one, okay. And
Speaker 5: my first shift, I remember, was during the Diamondbacks Yankees
Speaker 5: World Series.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, so that was shortly after like the
Speaker 4: nine to eleven stuff all that.
Speaker 5: So so that's how I always remembered when I started.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And I mean think about I would say,
Speaker 4: and I don't know for you, and obviously your this
Speaker 4: is about you, it's not about me. But the thing
Speaker 4: that blew me away in this time working with you
Speaker 4: was the COVID years, which went for like way too
Speaker 4: long in my opinion. But we had nothing to We're
Speaker 4: a sports radio show. We had nothing going on, and
Speaker 4: we were totally just futsing around trying to kill I
Speaker 4: was doing monologues on Marble Racing.
Speaker 3: You had to do news updates, which was basically what
Speaker 3: are they going to come back to play?
Speaker 4: And we had more people listening. And I think that
Speaker 4: period time. I don't know if you agree with me
Speaker 4: on that any but I think for me, that period
Speaker 4: of time was such a connection with people because there
Speaker 4: were a lot of people that were just lonely and depressed,
Speaker 4: and it was just it was, I felt, a very
Speaker 4: important time for this show, and you were a huge
Speaker 4: part of that, you know, playing the games and deffing
Speaker 4: around and that whole thing.
Speaker 3: You know, it really was. It was crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, absolutely, and uh it was. It was funny
Speaker 5: when you were, you know, doing your home studio stuff
Speaker 5: and the gremlins would attack and I would have to
Speaker 5: take over for a little bit. I remember I was thinking,
Speaker 5: maybe I should have something prepared, blah blah blah, and
Speaker 5: then I realized, they don't care about that. They just
Speaker 5: want to I'll just take a couple of calls and
Speaker 5: we'll goof around with somebody until Ben comes back. That's
Speaker 5: what they that's what they care about. They don't really
Speaker 5: care about me doing some half assed mallor monologue. So
Speaker 5: that was always an interesting time when that happened. And uh,
Speaker 5: because we didn't know how long you'd be gone too.
Speaker 5: Sometimes it was twenty seconds. Sometimes you had to drive
Speaker 5: into the studio.
Speaker 4: I know, it was so stupid, It was so dumb,
Speaker 4: and it's you know, it still happens every once in
Speaker 4: a while.
Speaker 3: I guess Loraino hosts a show.
Speaker 6: Down but but but no, it was it was you know,
Speaker 6: it's it's crazy with the gremlin stuff and I it's
Speaker 6: one thing that I really wish I could tone down
Speaker 6: because I spend so much time preparing for the show
Speaker 6: and the monologue.
Speaker 4: You and you know, Eddie, you're absolutely right, like I
Speaker 4: go out, I just we were just inns the city.
Speaker 4: Nobody gives a shit about my opinions on sports. I
Speaker 4: just want to hang out, you know, I just want
Speaker 4: to you know, they want to talk. They you know,
Speaker 4: they like that I'm talking. But I could I could
Speaker 4: read Wikipedia page you too, right, you could just you know,
Speaker 4: at the top of the eye we goof around.
Speaker 3: And stuff, but you could.
Speaker 4: You know, you just want to hear your voice pretty much.
Speaker 4: It's not necessarily what you're talking about. It's that you're talking.
Speaker 4: I think that's the most important thing. And I I've
Speaker 4: and we're both radio guys and stuff like that. I
Speaker 4: always thought that's kind of the connection live radio and it.
Speaker 3: Especially at night. Like I've worked during the day. I
Speaker 3: know you worked during the day too. I feel like just.
Speaker 4: Radio is more important at night to be because they're
Speaker 4: usually by themselves and you know you're listening whether you're work.
Speaker 4: You know, I can't tell you how many guys I've
Speaker 4: met you've been out at these meet and greets, Eddie.
Speaker 3: They call it old man disease. Well, you just can't
Speaker 3: sleep at night.
Speaker 4: You get to a certain age and whatever the reason,
Speaker 4: you're just up at night and you need something to
Speaker 4: keep your company.
Speaker 3: So it means a great deal.
Speaker 4: But you were a huge part of that, and I
Speaker 4: as far as the rivalry, you will stay claim, Eddie
Speaker 4: to the all time winning percentage.
Speaker 3: You're claiming that? Is that correct?
Speaker 1: That's absolutely correct?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I do have We used to.
Speaker 5: We used to have a guy that kept track of
Speaker 5: the results. And I don't know whatever happened to that guy,
Speaker 5: do you?
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you we well, we we had a couple of
Speaker 4: people that would keep well. One was in Australia, right,
Speaker 4: Ozzie Was it not Ozzy guy? Was it Ozzie momentum?
Speaker 4: One of the guys in Australia would keep track, although
Speaker 4: I believe they adocted.
Speaker 3: The numbers in your favorite were part of your team there, yea.
Speaker 5: I was thinking about this, Ben because people are like, hey,
Speaker 5: you know you got to you gotta stay in touch,
Speaker 5: blah blah blah. I was thinking, Uh, at some point
Speaker 5: I'll have to call in to play a game and
Speaker 5: play with you.
Speaker 1: How much would that blow people's minds?
Speaker 5: Have you and I on the same team after being
Speaker 5: rivals for so long?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no one will, No one will be to beat us.
Speaker 4: I want you to know you're also in you know,
Speaker 4: you know, Eddie. I mean not that you probably ever
Speaker 4: want to go back there until you get rehired at
Speaker 4: some point, hopefully you will, but you're more than welcome,
Speaker 4: just like you know Roberto who left to go I
Speaker 4: can become a bus driver, Eddie.
Speaker 1: You're not no, no, definitely not no.
Speaker 3: I don't think so, I'm trying. I think who else
Speaker 3: has left? Uh? I don't know.
Speaker 4: People leave for random jobs or whatever. But I've always
Speaker 4: said I, and I mean this. Have I ever losed
Speaker 4: this job? Which probably sooner than later. Maybe I'll go
Speaker 4: to Costco or something. Then I'll be I'll be fun.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it's.
Speaker 5: Well you said about you were talking about nobody cares
Speaker 5: about your monologues.
Speaker 1: That's not true.
Speaker 5: But what they really do remember is the funny moments,
Speaker 5: the crazy callers. That kind of stuff is what really
Speaker 5: citticks and resonates with people. And I mean, I've thought
Speaker 5: about it certainly while I was still doing the job.
Speaker 5: But to get paid to laugh and goof around and
Speaker 5: talk about sports is a dream come true. So twenty
Speaker 5: three years of doing that, pretty lucky guy.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and listen, we had a great rivalry and you
Speaker 4: made me better. I loved going against you in the
Speaker 4: game shows. And I've told people when I've gone out
Speaker 4: and been able to meet listeners, and we had a
Speaker 4: great turnout this past weekend in Kansasity.
Speaker 3: We'll talk more about that on the Saturday podcast. But really,
Speaker 3: the whole thing is that we really want to win.
Speaker 4: It's not fake, like we really genuinely are competitors, and
Speaker 4: it's we're not playing I guess, are you still playing hockey?
Speaker 4: You were playing hockey at last night? Heard are you
Speaker 4: still playing like adult hockey? I am, yes, Okay, well
Speaker 4: I'm not. This is the only competition I have. It's
Speaker 4: either me sitting on a treadmill looking at my you know,
Speaker 4: listening to music or my.
Speaker 3: Whatever, listening to my phone.
Speaker 4: But the competition I have is with Eddie, and so
Speaker 4: we would go head to head and yeah, I know
Speaker 4: you could admit, now, Eddie, you're not working there.
Speaker 3: You did cheat a little bit, but you could you
Speaker 3: could admit that.
Speaker 1: No, you never once, never, once.
Speaker 3: You were caught at least twice. Uh you know, I
Speaker 3: forgive you, Eddie. I love you.
Speaker 1: I The only the only.
Speaker 5: Person that ever said they witnessed you cheating was Jonas Knox,
Speaker 5: and that was that was not solicited.
Speaker 1: He came in, He's like, I saw Ben looking up answers.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I knew it almost.
Speaker 4: That is correct. Jonas made that up. He's a liar.
Speaker 4: It's a bad job by him. Uh So, of all
Speaker 4: the nicknames, because you know, I want to make sure
Speaker 4: we don't forget these. We need to document the nicknames
Speaker 4: because I have the most nicknames, but you kept picking
Speaker 4: up nicknames, many of them you hate.
Speaker 3: But I guess let me do the nickname run.
Speaker 4: Down for Eddie here and we'll see which ones you
Speaker 4: like and which ones you now I've called.
Speaker 1: You right away which one I hate the most?
Speaker 4: Shuttle all right, but these are among the nicknames that
Speaker 4: we gave Eddie over the years we worked together. The
Speaker 4: shuttle Cock of sports Talk, which you decided he hated
Speaker 4: the punchline Assassin, which you got for lame jokes. All
Speaker 4: hail King Eddie, which was a homage. Remember that guy
Speaker 4: in jail in Montana.
Speaker 1: That was.
Speaker 4: The drop, That was one of the crazier guys that
Speaker 4: we had called the show, right. He had a very
Speaker 4: high pitched voice. He was in jail for a white
Speaker 4: collar crime.
Speaker 3: He couldn't he had some illness where he couldn't sleep,
Speaker 3: so they gave him.
Speaker 4: A phone and he used to call our show from
Speaker 4: jail and love you Eddie, Love you the great Zamboni.
Speaker 3: Ice Ice Garcia, slick Willy.
Speaker 4: Chili, Willie, cheating Willy, pretty much any Willy, Steamboat Willie.
Speaker 4: I'm proud of that one, the Steamboat Willie one that
Speaker 4: was very good. You war shirts. You have shirts steamboat Willie?
Speaker 4: I do, yeah, got that for the Chargers draft one year.
Speaker 4: They had a party at Disneyland, right, and we cast.
Speaker 5: It's correct And I took off work to go to that,
Speaker 5: and you didn't never let you forget it.
Speaker 3: Golden Pipes, purveyor of puck.
Speaker 4: And then of course you know Edmund Dallas Judius, Steamboat
Speaker 4: Willie Garcia, I think Fillmore Mike gave you the nickname
Speaker 4: road Dog. I don't know what is that some kind
Speaker 4: of weird Fillmore thing? We haven't heard from Filmore? My
Speaker 4: I didn't called me in a while.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, you called Aquaman at one point.
Speaker 4: Kabana boy, remember the Kabana boy because you were hanging out.
Speaker 1: I did like that one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a celebrity Charger fan. That woman that's a friend
Speaker 4: of your wife's there, Nacho Daddy you met was it
Speaker 4: Robin Vegas?
Speaker 3: You met it now?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 3: The Murman. That was a great. Oh that was great.
Speaker 3: You went to the fountain in Sherman Oaks at the Galleria.
Speaker 1: That was one of the all time memories.
Speaker 3: That was one of the greats. Yeah, that was outstanding.
Speaker 3: That was during COVID I think, right, was that during
Speaker 3: the kind of COVID time or No, I don't, I.
Speaker 5: Don't know, I don't, I don't remember. I remember Brian
Speaker 5: no was did play by play because he was filling in.
Speaker 5: He happened to be there, so he walked across with me.
Speaker 5: It was what the bet was with him. That's why
Speaker 5: we I paid it off with it was there? Yeah,
Speaker 5: and uh yeah, maybe not.
Speaker 4: Bad news bears Uh Judas is Solid Gold Corporate nine
Speaker 4: to five. All right, we give you that jar Jard,
Speaker 4: the mad F bomber. You did say the F word
Speaker 4: on the air, Eddie, No, I didn't you did. It's
Speaker 4: the people know they've heard it.
Speaker 3: The puck Ducker, Triple A gated Garcia.
Speaker 4: No, that was you had an issue with your is
Speaker 4: it your car or something like that and Triple A
Speaker 4: had to come out there.
Speaker 3: But you were in a gated community? Is that correct?
Speaker 3: Am I am? I remembering that small.
Speaker 5: I there was a I had a street going there
Speaker 5: of like once a month, having to call Triple A
Speaker 5: to work because I was so stupid. I would put
Speaker 5: my car keys in my backpack and then I would
Speaker 5: get out of the car and I would lock the
Speaker 5: door with the button and then close the door like
Speaker 5: I'm fool and lock all my stuff in there. It
Speaker 5: was unbelievable how many times I did that, like and
Speaker 5: just the more a complete moron.
Speaker 1: So but no, the game.
Speaker 5: I do live in a little gated community, but it's
Speaker 5: like the most low rung gated community you could ever
Speaker 5: live in. It's it's just a gated community. But because
Speaker 5: there's a gate that keeps you out. But it's not
Speaker 5: like you would think it's. But I like that. That's
Speaker 5: a good That's a good one, Cabana boy, I like.
Speaker 5: I think I think my favorite is probably the great
Speaker 5: Zambone Me.
Speaker 1: I think it's my first Zamboni.
Speaker 3: That is a good one. Well.
Speaker 4: Also, I'm not done, Eddie. There's oh no, there's more
Speaker 4: games of Note, Garcia.
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
Speaker 3: That's my favorite.
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
Speaker 4: That was your That was I have you know in
Speaker 4: the air everywhere you have games of note.
Speaker 3: That's your that's your thing.
Speaker 5: And that was not like trying to come up with
Speaker 5: something that was just how do I let these people know.
Speaker 5: I'm not giving them all the scores. I'm gonna give
Speaker 5: them the games that I think are important. So that's
Speaker 5: where that came from.
Speaker 4: And we sparred many times over what a game of
Speaker 4: Note was, Eddie. Sometimes I thought a game of Note
Speaker 4: was different than you. And I've made sure I let
Speaker 4: you know that. I yeah, it was more important.
Speaker 5: Well, and I tried to tell you that games that
Speaker 5: are worthy of talking about on a game show are
Speaker 5: not a game show on a talk show, are different
Speaker 5: than a.
Speaker 1: Game of note.
Speaker 5: Like there is if something juicy happens in the game,
Speaker 5: you know, fight on the sidelines, then that makes it
Speaker 5: something you want to get into.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't mean that that was a great game
Speaker 1: that everybody needs to know the score of. So that's
Speaker 1: where I was coming from with that.
Speaker 4: All right, now we have to throw the red flag.
Speaker 4: That was a nickname we gave you glass toe. Remember
Speaker 4: you hurt your toe.
Speaker 5: Broke my only broken bone in my life. I took
Speaker 5: a slapshot off my left big.
Speaker 3: Toe gas like Garcia did a lot of that. Oh
Speaker 3: and the cookie crook.
Speaker 4: Remember you took the cookies from Loraina, so he called
Speaker 4: you the cookie crook there.
Speaker 5: Well you would you would say that I couldn't have
Speaker 5: a cookie because I did something to make you mad.
Speaker 3: That was me. That's right, that you took What did
Speaker 3: you eat from lorraino?
Speaker 5: Oh that was the potato ball? Oh the potato that
Speaker 5: was her first, her first day on the job.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the club.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: That's a top move, is what that is.
Speaker 5: I didn't well, that's that's low for you to say that,
Speaker 5: But I didn't take it out of the But you
Speaker 5: know that when when people leave food in that on
Speaker 5: that desk in our kitchen. That is the sign for
Speaker 5: if anyone wants to eat this, eat it now. She
Speaker 5: didn't know that in her defense, but also I didn't
Speaker 5: know that she was just white. Likely if you have
Speaker 5: food that you bring into work, why would you just
Speaker 5: lay it on a table and walk away from it.
Speaker 5: So she learn she had to learn lesson that day, and.
Speaker 1: She did well.
Speaker 4: She's learning about radio Eddie. As I said, she was
Speaker 4: very emotional, as many people were. But you know, it's
Speaker 4: your your deal, it's your life. But people very upset
Speaker 4: and she was, and I tried to explain to her.
Speaker 4: I was like, this is listen this unfortunately, this is
Speaker 4: a side note. We all know eventually this is going
Speaker 4: to happen to us.
Speaker 3: But you've you've handled.
Speaker 4: It great and you've made you made quite the connection
Speaker 4: with a number of listeners. I know Manuell and Guardina,
Speaker 4: who was in the last listener to visits last week,
Speaker 4: he called up said some nice things about you. But
Speaker 4: of all the listeners, Eddie, the one that you have
Speaker 4: gone above and beyond for is Siria Sean. Yes, he
Speaker 4: called up last very upset. You have been very kind
Speaker 4: to him. You've gone to games with him. He loves
Speaker 4: you more. You're like a big brother to him, like
Speaker 4: a father figure to Siria Sean. And he said, he
Speaker 4: called up last night, he said he you know, he's
Speaker 4: going to continue and you're gonna still be friends with
Speaker 4: him and all that. But you did a great job.
Speaker 4: Because we've known Sean he was in high school. He's
Speaker 4: all grown up now.
Speaker 3: He's got a few issues. We all have issues. And
Speaker 3: he loved our show.
Speaker 4: And his teacher actually had reached out to me his
Speaker 4: senior year in high school. It's like, hey, he really listens.
Speaker 4: This is the most important show, and he wants to
Speaker 4: meet you and.
Speaker 3: Eddie very important.
Speaker 4: He meets you, Eddie, and he came out and we
Speaker 4: know he's been part of our family ever since. He
Speaker 4: lives in Arizona. Now he lives in southern California. But
Speaker 4: that's the kind of thing man, And people don't they
Speaker 4: know a little bit about that Eddie.
Speaker 3: But and that's cool. We're known out there promoting.
Speaker 4: We're not like Russell Wilson going to children's hospital with
Speaker 4: a camera crew to doctor.
Speaker 1: I love Russell Wilson. I've come around on Russell.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, Okay, that basket throw they throw.
Speaker 3: That was the basket catch. Uh, this was beautiful.
Speaker 4: That was a that's a that's a legendary throw by
Speaker 4: Russell Wilson.
Speaker 5: And I was watching it on my phone in Sofi
Speaker 5: Stadium at a Chargers game and watching it live, and
Speaker 5: I had all these Charger fans. I was like, Mike
Speaker 5: Williams just kind of game when he touched off with
Speaker 5: the Steelers and everyone was excited.
Speaker 1: They were all like, Oh, that's awesome. That was that
Speaker 1: was pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Speaking now, you've never been to Kansas City? Is that correct?
Speaker 3: You don't go to a You told me that a
Speaker 3: while ago. You've got arrowhead, you got it.
Speaker 5: I'd love to go. It's not my call, it's it's
Speaker 5: my wife. She doesn't want to go. She she hates.
Speaker 3: It's an iconic stadium, right.
Speaker 5: I understand it may not be around much longer. You
Speaker 5: need to see it before it goes away.
Speaker 3: Maybe so they're gonna move, and by I want you
Speaker 3: to know idea.
Speaker 4: I was driving around Kansas City and you go in
Speaker 4: and out of Kansas and Missouri. They're intertwined like cities.
Speaker 4: So they're gonna move, probably to Kansas the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: But true.
Speaker 1: But the new stadium. You're saying, see this old Venerable stadium, right, I.
Speaker 4: Mean I you know, I'm pretty jaded and grumpy like you, Eddie.
Speaker 4: You know we're around the same agent, so it takes
Speaker 4: a lot for me to like be wow, this.
Speaker 3: Is kind of cool. This is like I'm flashing back
Speaker 3: to my youth.
Speaker 4: But I remember when I was a kid watching games
Speaker 4: on TV at Arrowhead Stadium and whether it be a
Speaker 4: holiday or something like that, or a Monday night game,
Speaker 4: and then to walk in there and to tailgate, uh,
Speaker 4: and it was it was great. And uh, just just people.
Speaker 4: They just do it a little different there, just a
Speaker 4: little different. I've been to a Bill's game years ago
Speaker 4: and that was that was before they were known as
Speaker 4: Bill's Mafia. That was pretty wild. But this is one
Speaker 4: of the great experiences. And there we're Bronco fans walking around.
Speaker 3: So you can show up and and I know people.
Speaker 4: The guy that I sent some photos out of, this
Speaker 4: guy that has the short bus and he's a he's
Speaker 4: a friend, so I have his number now. So if
Speaker 4: you go, you could be like the Charger fan on
Speaker 4: the short bus, you and your wife and it'll cook amaze.
Speaker 4: Were eating barbecue Eddie at at like eight in the morning.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's the dream come true.
Speaker 3: The delicious, most delicious barbecue. I'm drinking. I'm like, I
Speaker 3: don't know what, I'm breaking my diet for a day.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 3: But you got to get the airhead. And how many
Speaker 3: NFL stadiums have you been to? Now?
Speaker 4: You and your wife going this pilgrimage every year. You've
Speaker 4: been doing this for as long as I can remember.
Speaker 4: But it's never the AFC West. You don't go the
Speaker 4: Raiders and the Broncos.
Speaker 3: And the Chiefs. You don't worry about that. You're worried
Speaker 3: about other games.
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, it's it's usually a vacation slash football game.
Speaker 5: It's usually a place we like, we'd like to go visit,
Speaker 5: and it has to be kind of we both agree
Speaker 5: on it. And my wife is you know, she's she
Speaker 5: is as hardcore an NFL fan as you will ever find,
Speaker 5: and she hates every team in the AFC West because
Speaker 5: she's a Chargers fan. And so because of that, her
Speaker 5: like she doesn't want her thing is I don't want
Speaker 5: to go to that stadium and hear all those people
Speaker 5: and then if we lose, I got to hear it
Speaker 5: like the whole game. So that's her thing. I've tried
Speaker 5: to say, you know, I like Kansas City and Denver.
Speaker 5: I think would be cool places to go. I'm trying
Speaker 5: to talk her into it, but you know, we'll see.
Speaker 5: But I don't know how many stadiums we've been to,
Speaker 5: but you're right, every year we try and do that.
Speaker 5: We've been to Chicago and DC and Seattle.
Speaker 3: And Pittsburgh many times right.
Speaker 5: Here in Arizona. Pittsburgh many times. Obviously when the Steelersn't
Speaker 5: Chargers play, because that's our two favorite teams, we always
Speaker 5: go to that game. They play each other a lot.
Speaker 5: Since we've been married, which is sixteen years now, so.
Speaker 3: Wow, it's before I forget you did want to know
Speaker 3: those things. At Eddie's wedding.
Speaker 4: You knew I eat like a child, and you and
Speaker 4: your wife, I don't know if this is you or
Speaker 4: your popular wife, but made sure that I had chicken fingers,
Speaker 4: that I had my food, my food of choice, which
Speaker 4: was the coolest thing because I hate wedding food. It
Speaker 4: usually sucks, but you made sure I have a special
Speaker 4: plate of chicken fingers.
Speaker 3: I'm very grateful to that, Eddie.
Speaker 1: I appreciate You're more than welcome.
Speaker 4: Invite you to my wedding because I didn't have a
Speaker 4: wedding carried on a deserted beach in Hawaii because I'm
Speaker 4: an introvert and I didn't want to deal with with
Speaker 4: with all that, so it didn't didn't bother that at all.
Speaker 3: Tell me there's so much oh the the Ohio.
Speaker 4: I know you're not part of the chauffe Now hopefully
Speaker 4: the company wises up and brings you back. But I
Speaker 4: am planning on going to Ohio next year. Maybe the
Speaker 4: Chargers will play the Bengals or the or the Browns
Speaker 4: or something.
Speaker 3: We can plant it out.
Speaker 4: I'd love for you to go, so I want you
Speaker 4: to meet Dick and Dayton. I know I got to
Speaker 4: meet the dixter as you famously. You had the great
Speaker 4: joke about the Dick picks he would give out on
Speaker 4: the air. Just a great character. And I'm hoping to
Speaker 4: go there next year. I don't know your schedule. I
Speaker 4: mean Lorraine also and Cooper like and the boys were like,
Speaker 4: if we go to Vegas because that's like a drive,
Speaker 4: you know you can drive to Vegas.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll do We're talking.
Speaker 4: About doing a mallor meet and greet every year in
Speaker 4: Vegas at least one of them, and we'll have one
Speaker 4: in southern California. So hopefully, to me, you're part of
Speaker 4: the show for life and you're part of our family.
Speaker 4: Unless you work for a competitor, then you're dead to me.
Speaker 4: But no, no, I hopefully you can still come out
Speaker 4: because people love you and you can go out and
Speaker 4: hang out. And I know IM's still gonna you know,
Speaker 4: you're still going to come to the hopefully the Ugly
Speaker 4: Sweater party and hang out with.
Speaker 3: Us and all that. So well, I'll still see you.
Speaker 4: I'll try to make make it to some more Charger
Speaker 4: games because I know you'll be there.
Speaker 1: Yes, I will.
Speaker 3: I definitely know you'll be there. I saw you on
Speaker 3: the scoreboard. I saw the photo you were on the scoreboard.
Speaker 5: I know it was funny. My wife's like, why don't
Speaker 5: you smile. I'm like, I am smiling. I've just got this.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: I hate those people who act like crazy fools when
Speaker 5: they get put on cameras, So why I'm not going
Speaker 5: to do it when they do it to me, I
Speaker 5: just gonna sit there and be.
Speaker 1: Like the fact you've been there before, right, that's right,
Speaker 1: that's right.
Speaker 3: So how can people keep in contact?
Speaker 4: You already give the email addresses to social media hasn't changed.
Speaker 4: You probably should change that, but effort maybe not because
Speaker 4: you can come back, But how can people get ahold
Speaker 4: of you?
Speaker 3: And also the podcast? You have a very popular hockey podcast.
Speaker 4: Which I will make sure to promote, much to the
Speaker 4: dismay of management, as much as.
Speaker 3: I can, even though you're not working for us anymore.
Speaker 4: I will promote your podcast It's Fucked the World, right,
Speaker 4: But you also do something else.
Speaker 3: You do a couple podcasts. Am I correcting that? Or
Speaker 3: am I wrong on it?
Speaker 5: Well, Puck the World was what I did on your show,
Speaker 5: And I always appreciate you giving me that little bone
Speaker 5: because you know how much I am passionate about hockey,
Speaker 5: and yeah, a little it ever gets talked on sports
Speaker 5: talk radio. So I appreciated that little weekly bone that
Speaker 5: you threw me. So thank you for that.
Speaker 1: The NHL podcast I've done now for eighteen.
Speaker 5: Years, which eighteen years, yeah, they want they won't fire
Speaker 5: me from that because.
Speaker 1: I'm the boss.
Speaker 3: Oh you like it so much? You bought the company,
Speaker 3: are you all?
Speaker 1: That's right?
Speaker 5: It's Puck podcast, very simple, and we got on board
Speaker 5: doing it way before it was cool and way before
Speaker 5: respectable people were doing podcasts. So Puck Podcast is our
Speaker 5: weekly NHL podcast me and my college buddy have been
Speaker 5: doing for eighteen years. And then an old Fox Sports
Speaker 5: radio guy we streached out to me a couple of
Speaker 5: years ago, see if he knew I loved the La Kings.
Speaker 5: He's working now for the Lockdown Sports Network and asked
Speaker 5: if I wanted to do a King show, and I
Speaker 5: said absolutely so. Also, it's uh locked on La Kings.
Speaker 5: Make sure you put La Kings or else you will
Speaker 5: get a basketball team in Sacramento.
Speaker 3: Uh, And nobody wants that.
Speaker 5: And that's a Monday through Friday show, so it does
Speaker 5: keep it keeps me busy, cool and obviously the season's
Speaker 5: going on and the Kings are doing pretty well. So
Speaker 5: if you want to support me in either of those
Speaker 5: places by liking and subscribing and downloading, I would greatly
Speaker 5: appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, keep in contact and we'll I'll
Speaker 4: have you on this dopey podcast and you're always invited, Eddie,
Speaker 4: you know, not if you can't sleep or you want
Speaker 4: to take a night away from the wife or something
Speaker 4: like that. You're more than welcome to uh to come
Speaker 4: hang out with us.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I got some extra sleep last night. I
Speaker 1: don't know how I enjoyed it, though I don't. I
Speaker 1: kind of didn't like it. So I don't know how
Speaker 1: I'm gonna adjust to that.
Speaker 3: You're more more. You have an open invitation, all right,
Speaker 3: you know you might want to park on the street.
Speaker 3: Now we'll get your parking and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: So but hopefully they take care of Thank you so much, man,
Speaker 4: it's been great, and I'll well, you know, we're not
Speaker 4: you know, I know we.
Speaker 3: Were work friends. You got to work on being like
Speaker 3: we got to talk more. We'll have to. I'll send
Speaker 3: you a random text. I'm not gonna go full loony
Speaker 3: where Looney when he got let go? You know it's NonStop,
Speaker 3: but I'll uh.
Speaker 1: I did hear from Looney by the way, so oh good.
Speaker 3: Gooey was very upset.
Speaker 4: I we had talked. He'd you know, he'd wondered what
Speaker 4: had happened because of the stories. Its people getting laid
Speaker 4: off around the country and stuff. So but anyway, listen
Speaker 4: continued success Eddie.
Speaker 3: I'm a big fan.
Speaker 4: You know that We've been through a lot together on
Speaker 4: the radio, and we'll hopefully work together again at some
Speaker 4: point here and I'll have you on.
Speaker 3: Maybe i'll have you on before you know. We'll talk
Speaker 3: hockey randomly, I'll uh, I'll put my shame aside Eddie
Speaker 3: for you, and we'll do that.
Speaker 4: But have a great weekend here and enjoyed that. Maybe
Speaker 4: I'll be at the Charger game on Slay. Maybe I'll
Speaker 4: see you or not, but say how to your wife
Speaker 4: and and take care.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: I will thank you so much.
Speaker 5: I appreciate the kind words on the show there the
Speaker 5: day after, and uh, appreciate your friends. And you're great
Speaker 5: at what you do. There's no one else. I say
Speaker 5: this completely seriously. There's nobody else I would rather have
Speaker 5: worked with at Fox Sports Radio than you. It was
Speaker 5: a blast. I loved it. Who knows, maybe it'll happen again,
Speaker 5: but if not, I had a great time.
Speaker 1: And you do. You're great at what you do, Ben,
Speaker 1: and I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Go.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm leaving. Goodbye.