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The Fifth 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:30.960 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:34.640 In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with me, Big 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:40.520 Ben and sitting in the chair to my right, hypothetically 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:44.319 speaking of course through the magic audio communications, is not 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:46.680 Danny g He's off this weekend, but in his place 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:53.040 Alex the Vegan Alex Tyshert, beloved Fox Sports radio personality 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:55.720 behind the scenes, but also on the air. You chime 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.120 in from time to time, right, you know, just hide 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:00.520 out behind the scenes, behind the buttons. More than that, 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:05.200 you're a podcaster, You're a renaissance man, and you're my 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:09.440 number one go to guy when Danny can't do the podcast. 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.560 Oh more poorly, what an honored Ben. 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.960 You know, some would say young casanova too of late, 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.480 because you know, young budding spring love has turned into 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.479 summer fire. So it's been a good time. But as 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.600 for the yes, that has been a big venture of 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:22.680 mine for the last six months. 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.240 Ben, I have heard stories in the hallways. Really, things 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.240 are going very well for you in the off the 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.040 air department. Yeah, things in the real world, things are 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.560 going very well for you. You're you're racking up a 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:36.760 lot of miles, though. 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.679 From what I understand, so many too many, Yes, a 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:40.280 lot of miles. 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.800 You gotta cut the gap on that. But other than that, 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:44.120 it's all good for you. 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.240 I'm happy for you, Thank you, Ben, And I'm honored 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.480 and privileged to also be somebody that you would like 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.080 to sit in with you because I know Danny g 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.000 does a great job. But at the same time, Ben, 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:53.880 I know you and I like to get deeper and 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.240 kind of more volumptuous when it comes to certain type 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.480 of topics and conversations. And I'll give you kind of 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.639 the youth perspective as I'm really plugged into the social 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.840 media aspect content creation. So it's kind of like a 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:05.600 good mix between you and I'd say. 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.000 And see and you just gave me like a backhandy 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.960 compliment calling me an old deezer, and you did, I mean, 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.000 that was an indirect shot. That was a gut punch, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.200 is what that was. That I mean, I'm still talking 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.320 about athletes who have not aged. By the way, I 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.880 want you to know, when I started in radio, I 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.160 was talking about athletes who are all between the ages 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.000 of like I don't know, eighteen and you know forty, 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.840 and the athletes are still between eighteen and forty. They 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.160 just happened to be the kids of the people that 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:37.200 I used to talk about when I started this nonsense 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.519 back in the day. So it's the circle of life, Alex. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.760 You're gonna be there, man, before you know it. You're 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:44.919 gonna be there. It's true, gonna be in my position. 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.440 You're gonna wake up one morning and say, wait a minute, 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.320 I remember that per Wait that's the son of so 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.880 and so, the daughter of so and so. Wait a minute. 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.480 Yes, I will say Ben, in defense, I did say 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.560 Danny g because he's not here, so I'll take shots. 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:01.079 But I would you feel free? Yes, you were ageless, Ben. 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.480 Your your voice lives on through the eternity of the 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.840 microphones and through the infinitive waves in the world. 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.520 So you are eternal. You are ageless. 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:10.519 It was more so just saying I think it's nice 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.320 to have somebody from like that content creation TikTok side. 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.880 That's all I was trying to say. I understand and clearly, 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.560 and I'm not on TikTok. It's not my world, it's 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.880 not my domain. I cut it off after. I think 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.360 Instagram was the last really social media that I signed 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.519 up for you. I'm on Facebook, Instagram, not back in 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.160 the old days. I'm obviously X. But I was on 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:32.920 in the old days. It was it was, it was 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.960 the original. It was my Space, my Space. Yeah, do 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:37.040 you remember your top eight? 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:37.320 Ben? 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.240 I do not. I blocked all that out. Remember. I 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.560 used to work with a woman Karen karen Ka who 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.000 she had a drop that my Space is huge, you 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.560 know like that. We used to play around on that. 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.160 Back in the day. I was on I'm so old. 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.840 I was on America Online. What is that a stop? Oh? 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.680 That was the original Internet. They owned the Internet. Dial up, right, 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:03.080 was not the radio. Yeah, it was dial up. You 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.080 had to wait for the thing to connect. It was 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:08.160 always slow. And then they had chat rooms and and 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.280 they had like news sites, but it was all in 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.200 their world. It was on their own ecosystem, and they 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.920 used to send out these things called CDs. I don't 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.560 know if you know CDSDS, Compact dish, yes, yes, And 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:22.960 they used to send those out and there used to 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.800 be these things called newspapers, and sometimes they would even 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.960 include them in newspapers stop because they would get people 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.000 to sign up. And they owned the Internet and then 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.400 somehow they screwed it up and they blew it. Well, 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.520 I'm not sure how exactly they blew it. I'm sure 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.360 there's been a documentary made it about it or something 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.520 like that. But they at one point controlled the market 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.560 share of the Internet and then it all of a 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.560 sudden went away. It's it's kind of like that whole 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:54.240 Blockbuster video things. Video controlled the rental department, yes, the 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.039 rental space, as the cool people like to say, and 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.000 then that that all went away. 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.040 Ben, I still remember Blockbuster being a kid, going with 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.040 my parents on Friday nights and you'd have to wait 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.080 in line and rush to the aisle to hopefully there 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:10.320 was one disc left or the VHS's I remember those two. Yeah, 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.800 I still remember that, Ben, And you'd have to wait, maybe. 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.320 Like Sunday, somebody was going one of them, and you'd 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.520 get it on like a Sunday night or something like that. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.719 I was so smooth, Ben, I would make friends with 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.240 people that work there to have them tell me the 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.040 most return day to go at that time too, just 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:28.320 to make sure I got a copy. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.600 So that's a little insider trade. Yes, that is what 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.520 that is. That's thinking long and hard about how to 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.280 get the proper video. Now, did you buy any food? 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:39.159 They had the the popcorn movie, like a buttered popcorn 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:40.880 thing that you had to make at home. Of course, 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:45.040 of the microwave and candy, which was overpriced hoster video 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.080 back in the day. But yeah, it's like the same concept. 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.520 They the famous story they could have purchased Netflix early 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.000 on and taken away a competitor, and they chose not 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.800 to do it. They dismissed Netflix, and now Netflix is 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.599 still Every time I drive into the Mothership, I drive 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.200 through Hollywood, and I'm not sure if you come that way, 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.080 you probably don't, But I go by the Netflix building. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.440 Oh wys is right off? I think sunset? Yes, yes, 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.720 Hollywood in a massive, massive building right near the old Arby's. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:16.080 Yes, Ben, isn't it crazy to think about the transition 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.200 of things like you're saying about just going to a 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.920 place to rent a movie. Now you can download stream 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.640 all of them. And we had I'm sure you remember 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:24.800 this too. Remember red Box popped off for a little bit. 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:26.280 Yes, yes, they do. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.880 That was the transition. That was like the next step 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:30.760 to downloading at home because they were like, well, rather 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.039 than going into Blockbuster and waiting, just go to a 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:33.720 grocery store. 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:35.440 There's a box. You can just get a disc and go. 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.960 I still remember Ben, I still remember people, and I'm 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:40.840 sure you remember this as a kid too. Everybody was like, oh, 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:42.919 don't trust strangers, don't get in a car with strangers, 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.960 don't talk to strangers. Now the biggest platform for transportation 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:47.640 is Uber, where you talk. 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.720 To strangers and get in a stranger's car. 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:51.839 Like it trips me out, Like I don't know who 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.920 started that, And investors were like, genius, that's gonna work, 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:56.640 you know, like it trips me out. 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.200 Yeah, And we have a lot of people that listen 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.520 to the show over that are driving people the airports. Yes, yes, 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.120 I mean just throughout Fox Sports Radio and it. Yeah. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:06.960 And it's like a great concept for the people at 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.800 Uber because you know, you're putting a lot of wear 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.440 and tear in your car, right right, And they're not. 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.080 I don't think they're compensating for you. No, I did 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:16.760 lift for a year, Ben. Do you remember that when 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.880 I worked out here? Uh? Did I ever tell you 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.440 about that? I don't think I remember that. Oh, God, 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:23.000 shame on me. 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.040 So when I first started here and finally had the 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.560 night shift, I still had my Honda at the time, 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.160 and so I was thinking about a way to make 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.240 some extra side cash for I just wanted to go 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.800 traveling more and do like some more National Park stuff. 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:35.800 So I thought, how can I make some extra money 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.440 still within what I'm doing here in LA. And so 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:39.680 it kind of dawned on me. I was like, I 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.480 have the Honda. As soon as I get off at eleven, 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.080 why don't I just lift for a few hours in 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.080 downtown LA and see what happens Ben. The people I 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.080 met and the situations I got into, I don't know 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.840 how somebody hasn't created a show, and I mean, like 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.040 an actual television show that's based off of uber drivers 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.800 at nights or the type of individuals I met, Ben 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.360 from a spectrum of things. If you're conversational, have a 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.920 personality or somewhat or an extrovert, and you want to 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.840 make some fun money and meet some interesting people. Drive 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.600 La Uber at night or lyft. It was insane. I 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.400 did it for a year, Ben, it was crazy crazy. 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.200 Well, there used to be you know, I'll date myself, 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.080 but there used to be a show on HBO. I 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.400 think it was called Taxi Fat Taxi Cab Confessions or 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.640 something like that. Got you okay, anything about that? No, Yeah, 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.840 it was a while back, and it was the same 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.600 concept where they just put cameras in taxi cabs in 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.680 New York I think it was in New York and 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.120 they would drive around and it was overnight and people 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.160 would get in the cab from like, you know, having 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.320 random hookups or whatever, from the bar or you know whatever, 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.640 any life situation, and they would just spill their guts 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.360 wow in the cab, talking about their life. And of 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.160 course they had to get him to sign paperwork rights, 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.360 but it seemed like most of the people were They 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.360 must have paid them a fair amount of money. But 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.520 it was a really good show. So it was good, Ryan, 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:58.400 Oh yeah, it was very entertaining. 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:00.200 You could totally bring that back. I don't know, I 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.200 know what he's doing. It like Netflix, they got money 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:03.800 to throw at anybody. You make a joke to a 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:05.400 CEO and a bar, they give you a special. 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.720 I don't know what. They haven't tried it yet. There's 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.760 your move, Alex. Come on, you're Alex Levin, You're you're 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:14.720 a business mogul. Go into Netflix and pitch them on 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:15.440 your idea. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.760 Ben, do this with me. Let's do this. Let's be partners. 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:19.000 Let's pitch this idea together. 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.360 All right, Well, you had you're like Vegas, La, Miami, 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.439 New Orleans, because I don't think it'll work if you're 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:29.480 in Appleton, Wisconsin, that it would work quite your same there. 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.319 If you're in Omaha, Nebraska, that's true. Or Bizmarck. I 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.160 don't know that. There's a lot of interest in probably 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.560 not not a lot going on, kind of like where 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.760 I was. I was in Hawaii, and the whole place, 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.600 the whole island I was on, shuts down at eight 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.440 thirty to nine o'clock. There is nothing going on after that. 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.840 It is built around the daytime. Yeah, it's have you 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:54.319 been to Hawaii. 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.600 You've been Hawaii when I was younger, at like resorts 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.559 and stuff, but I've never been in the towns. 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:05.240 Yeah. So I went to the island of Kawaii. That's 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.560 where the that's where the airport is. Poi poo right there. 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:12.720 You fly in and it's such a laid back, uh situation. 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:17.040 Everyone's just cool. They're they're on island time. Okay, when 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.320 you're on island time, you're in no hurry. You don't 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.720 drive fast, you don't. We we went to a restaurant. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.720 We waited an hour to get food after we ordered, yes, 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.320 and it was very bad food. Food not that great. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.960 But throughout the weekend, alex I will be sprinkling in 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.920 stories from my vacation. The Mallard Travelogue. We'd like to 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.240 call it out in the boondocks. I like to say 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.400 it's in Oceania because it is Hawaii. Is the Hawaiian 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:48.200 Island is in Oceania? Yes, yes, not in northern north, 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.840 you know, the northern part of the continent or what 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.959 do we call it When I'm thinking of North America, 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.720 it's not North America. It's in Oceania, and it's just 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:01.559 out there. It's the longest flight, the longest flight without 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.760 any land underneath you in the entire world, is from 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:09.800 the West Coast to Hawaii. Nothing, yes, there is nothing. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:14.280 If something goes wrong, you're done. You're landing out with 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:18.240 the whales and the dolphins. That's it. But I've always 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.360 thought when I get into a plane, if something goes wrong, 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.480 that's it. I've never gotten into a plane. Yeah, I'm like, 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.079 I'm I'm I'm fine with that, Like I don't expect 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:32.720 for an emergency like crash land the plane that landed 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.320 in the Hudson River, remember in New York for years back, 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:40.800 and yes it was Sully, Yes, the whole movie on it. Yes, yeah, yeah, 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.280 I mean everyone survived. I think if I remember correcting 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.280 every one person that but everything it seemed like everyone 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:52.199 made it. Like that's that's so un likely, so unlikely 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.560 that that's going to happen. So when I get into 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.560 a plane, I'm like, Okay, if this is it, this 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:00.079 is it. I'm not worried. That's it. But it's a 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:04.200 long flight. Unfortunately, we got the extra leg room, so 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.320 I had had some room. But every time I fly 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.520 now I live, I don't say where exactly I live, 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:10.840 but you kind of know where I live. And I 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:15.360 go far from Lax out the north Woods, and I 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:19.640 try to avoid Lax at all costs because I hate 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.080 Lax and I don't know anyone that likes it, And 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.120 I got a refresher course. Now we, of course what 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:25.959 we all do. I'm sure you do this too. When 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.960 you go somewhere with your summer romance. There you decide 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.240 on the cheapest airfare. You're willing to go a little 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.560 further to an airport to get the cheap airfare, and inevitably, 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:41.640 this is my curse. LAX is always the cheapest, hands down. 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:42.240 Always. 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:43.640 I mean, we got a bunch of airports in the 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.520 LA area. Got you got Burbank, You've got Ontario, That's 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.640 where I go. I love that one. It's a small airport, 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.840 Orange County, Long Beach. There's all these little airports, but 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.719 LAX is always the cheapest. So you punch in the 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.600 numbers on your phone. You're like, all right, how much 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.480 is any and said, well, I can save two hundred 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.760 bucks per ticket if I go to LAX. So okay, 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:06.679 I'll go there. And every time I go to LAX, 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.040 I regret it. It's a refresher course, the worst airport 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:15.439 in America with LA Without I've traveled a fair amount 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.600 and I've only traveled around the continental United States, Alex 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.559 So I don't know what it's like outside of the US. 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:26.240 I haven't traveled abroad, no kidding, I haven't other than Oceania. 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.679 Oh wow, okay, but I haven't traveled about so I 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.560 only in the US. But I go to these other airports. 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:34.280 I'm like, all right, Dallas, great, they got a train system. 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:39.559 Atlanta's got a subway to take you between the terminals. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:43.400 Just awesome. Lax. You walk about seventeen months. I thought 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.440 I was walking to Hawaii. I thought I thought it 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.000 was like a triathlon when I got because they dropped 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.440 us off at the Tom Bradley terminales, which are some 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.840 the international terminal at LAX, which that proves it is 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.199 not in North America. It's an international flight for right 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.079 in California and Hawaii. It's in the international tournam There's 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.959 all these terminal, all these people coming from like China, Japan, 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.280 you know wherever, Yes, Russia, you name it, probably not Russia, 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.280 but far away places, far away places, right, So they're 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.720 all there, they're arriving, this is our first experience in America, 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:14.480 and they're at the baggage claim and all that they 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:18.079 drop us off. We of course parching parking, budget parking, 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.120 and then we go. We check in and we're like, okay, this, 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.640 I've never been to the international terminal. This is great. 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.440 So we check in and they say you're at the 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:30.680 gate like A twenty two. Okay, okay, and then you 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.560 have to find gate A twenty two. And you start 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:37.760 walking and you keep walking and you're meandering right, you're 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.120 going through and you're going and you walk through the 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:42.800 cool part, the nice part of the terminal where everything 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.960 smells good and looks good. And then they say there's 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.000 an escalator you've got to go down. So you're like, 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.200 all right, I'll meander down right, I'll navigate the airport, sure, 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.760 find my way. So I go down the not one, 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.280 not too but three escalators. I then have to walk 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:03.880 and they have this is a massive hall, massive massive hall. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.479 It's like three or four football fields. I'm not exaggerating. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:12.520 They have those people mover situated. Yes, those walking. Yeah, 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.720 it's not it's not. It's like you walk and it walks, 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.720 it rolls along. You know, escalator, well kind of, but 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.280 it's it's just rolling. It's like a rubberized floor. You're walking. 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.200 And then yeah, so I went on that. There were 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.000 three of those. So then I get done with that. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.440 I'm like, okay, I'm good, NOV arrived. Nope, nope, gotta 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.760 zigzag my way up another escalator. Right now, I gotta 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:37.400 twist around a corner. I gotta walk by a Burger King. 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.400 They couldn't get better food at lax Burger King. My god, 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.080 so that's torturous. So I walked by the Burger King. 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.240 Some other restaurants are closed because it was early. And 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.840 it walked down a walk walk walk walk walk walk 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:54.560 walk walk walk walk. I mean, it is insane. I think, 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:59.880 I'm I'm out in the countryside. And finally I finally 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.440 to the very end of the A terminal or the 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.040 A block of that terminal, and right there and then 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:06.520 I have to sit, and of course you have to 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.560 then sit for another hour for your plane to board. Yes, 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.480 and the whole the full, all inclusive experience. But if 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.520 I had been at another airport and taking one of 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:16.360 the train systems, I would have been there in about 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.560 two minutes. I would have been able to kick back, relax, 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:23.480 enjoy myself. Whatever. Then that's a nightmare. It was not 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:27.920 an enjoyable experience whatsoever. And then and then I had 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.960 what I call pa madness, Alex. So this is very odd. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.960 It's a small world, after all, it's a fall fall world. 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.800 So when I fly, I have long legs, and in 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:46.120 order to circumvent having to get shoved into a little 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.920 container and try to have a little leg room, you know, 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:53.080 a sardine containers, I go with the emergency road. Now, 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:54.920 back in the old days, when I first started flying, 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.680 when I was a kid, you didn't need to pay 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.560 extra for an emergency road. In fact, they asked volunteers 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.440 to sit in the emergency Yes, I remember that. Yeah, 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.400 It's like, would you like to sit in the emergency room. 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.600 We're looking for like ten people. And I always said sure, yes, 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.800 and he never said no. That there was a point 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.040 when I was really obese that I didn't fit in 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:16.280 the seat, which was a problem. But since i've lost 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:17.720 the weight, which has been a long time, and you've 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:19.120 known me, I think since I lost all the weight, 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.080 so you know me when I was massive, So I've 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:25.320 been fine. So but they started charging like fifteen years ago, 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.280 they started charging for maybe less than that, but they 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.639 started charging for the exit row. But I pay a 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.000 little extra. It's not first class, it's a little more, 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.160 but it's at least I can feel my knees when 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.160 I get off the plane, and so that's usually good. 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:40.000 So I get to the as I said, I had 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.960 to walk through this entire airport, all the all the surroundings, 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.800 everything just massive. I saw the whole scenery of Lax. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.920 So then I'm at the terminal at the gate rather 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.679 and I'm sitting there, mine of my own business, fussing 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.640 around on my phone, charging my phone, and the PA 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:03.520 person at the gate says, I will passenger passenger Lee, 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:10.320 passenger mallor Benjamin mallor come to the gate. Oh my god, Okay, 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:14.919 what did I do? Did they not have my ticket? Like? 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.480 What's going on here? You know something must be wrong? 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.520 And no, because I guess the wife had checked in 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.320 for me on her phone. I did not check in 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.320 on my phone. They just wanted to make sure that 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.639 I was comfortable sitting in an exit row, which, by 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.600 the way, I had booked. Okay, I'd already booked this. 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.000 I knew I was sitting in an exit row, but 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.000 I was like, yeah, I'm fine. So it took like 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.280 two seconds. So then I went back to sit down. 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.639 And then this is the PA madness part. This is 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:44.160 a gentleman comes up to me around my age, comes 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:47.879 up to me and says, hey, are you Ben Mahler 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.280 And I looked at him and I said, why, Yes 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:57.280 I am Ben mallor yes I am. So it turns 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.000 out this guy was not a listener to the radio show, 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:05.080 not a Fox Sports radio consumer, none of this guy. 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.320 This is where it's a small world, after all. I 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.199 went to elementary school and junior high school with this 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.920 guy stop and we got into a fight. We got 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:18.399 into a dust up and both got suspended from junior 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.439 high school. And I hadn't seen this guy since probably 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:26.199 my sophomore year of high school. That long. Wow, and 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:29.560 he happened to be at the airport on the state 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.879 the same flags Nim Steve and in case he's listening, 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.119 but yeah, he's just happened to be there, and he's 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.120 he's like telling me, And at first I have no 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:42.080 idea what he's saying, Like to me, he's speaking Portuguese 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:43.960