1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:01,440 Speaker 1: Cutbooms. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,600 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of 7 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 8 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 2: with Ben Mahler starts right now. 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 10 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny g Radio Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas. 11 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: As you know because you were a regular listener to 12 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: the Overnight show, we are in Las Vegas at a 13 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 1: secret location, deep in the heart of Sin City, doing 14 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: this podcast. We did the radio show from Vegas. I've 15 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: not done the show out of Vegas in a while. 16 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: It was cool, it's fun. There's a vibe here, there's 17 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: a different energy in Vegas. Had a good time with 18 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 1: that and kind of neat. Now. Today is Friday, the 19 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: twenty second day of August. Tomorrow is the Malor Meet 20 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 1: and Greet here in Vegas. Fired up. Hopefully you can 21 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,479 Speaker 1: make it. If you're here in Vegas, you live here. 22 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 1: If you're local. You better be here, and if not, 23 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: if you're coming into town, well thank you for that. 24 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: It's the Stakeout Bar and Grill. We'll be upstairs. There's 25 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: a downstairs and upstairs right near NLV forty eight hundred 26 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: South Maryland Parkway. All the information is on the social 27 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: media channels there. Slug the Hostess with the Mostess is 28 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: putting this thing together tomorrow and we're excited about that. 29 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: There'll be a special menu, we'll have a few surprises 30 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: along the way you get to schmooze. I'll be there, 31 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: Loreina will be there, Cooper Loop will be there. Hopefully 32 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: you'll be there as well. A good time. We don't 33 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: do these things that often, but when we do, there's 34 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: always really good stories, always really good stories that pop 35 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: up from these Mallard meet and greets. Now today is 36 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 1: National Tooth Fairy Day this Friday, and I'm not gonna 37 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,639 Speaker 1: spend too much time on this because we're a sporty podcast, 38 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: unless we're not. I did learn something that I'm sure 39 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: Alf the Alien, o Pinter and Ferg Dog were well 40 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: aware of, but I was not. I assume the position 41 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: that the tooth fairy goes back hundreds of years that 42 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: this is one of those things that goes way way, way, 43 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: way way back. But now, according to my research, the 44 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: little creature that would pop up and give you a 45 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: little money, I know. The American Dental Association helps out 46 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:00,799 Speaker 1: on that. They're big fans of the tooth so that 47 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: little tooth fairy creature, the Toothair a fictional character. Obviously, 48 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 1: they trace it back to the nineteen twenty so it's 49 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 1: a little over one hundred years ago, which seems like 50 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: a long time but in the big picture, not that 51 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,959 Speaker 1: not that long a time ago. And the person who 52 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: is credited with the mother of the tooth Fairy is 53 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: a woman named Eser Watkins Arnold, three names, which means 54 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: she might have been a serial killer. I'm kidding, unless 55 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: I'm not, but anyway, ether Esther Watkins Arnold wrote an 56 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: eight page playlet for children in nineteen twenty seven, so 57 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: a little less than a hundred years ago. The three 58 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: act playlet first introduced the tooth Fairy to parents. And yeah, 59 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: there have been fairies around for thousands of years. The 60 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: myth the legends of fairies have been around for a 61 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: long time. However, this is supposedly the first time that 62 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: this connection between the fairy and the tooth took place. 63 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: So there you go. On this podcast though the fifth 64 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: hour today on this Friday from Vegas, before I get 65 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: some more sleep, we've got the Glory Days before the 66 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: Glory Days American Injustice as well, but we'll begin with this. 67 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: So every so often in my life's work, the business 68 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: that I have chosen, the universe taps you on the 69 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: show there and says, hey, kid, I know you're not 70 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 1: a kid, but just pretend you're a kid. Hey kid, 71 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,679 Speaker 1: remember where you came from. So I got that tap 72 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: not long ago. The gods of radio called me back, 73 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 1: and know not literally, not literally, nobody's picking up the 74 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: bat phone in twenty twenty five saying hey, get down here, kid. 75 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: We've got an opening because the Farm Report and the 76 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: oh bits right between that we need somebody to fill 77 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: some time. But metaphorically, if I could say the word, 78 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: that would help. Metaphorically, So Dave Smith texts me, and 79 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 1: you might not know who that is, which on paper, 80 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: the name Dave Smith could mean you know anyone. Right, 81 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: there's probably eleven million Dave Smith in the continentally United States. 82 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: In fact, you have probably sat next to three people 83 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: named Dave Smith and an Applebee's on a Thursday night. 84 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 1: Another couple that a Chick fil a like on a Saturday. 85 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 1: But this Dave Smith was in the radio game. Either 86 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: that or he was in the Witness Protection program. I 87 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: think radio, but who knows. Now, if you were in 88 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: Los Angeles in the late nineties and the early two thousands, 89 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 1: you knew the Bennon Dave Show. The Ben and Dave Show. 90 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: We had our own little song was broadcast on the 91 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: blowtorch AM eleven fifty, which is now a political talk 92 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 1: radio station, but back then it was kiss AM, which 93 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: would later become KXTA that likely means nothing to you. 94 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 1: This is the kind of radio station that ran slogans 95 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 1: like we got big balls, that kind of thing. Now, 96 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: some of you have followed my radio sojourn. This was 97 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: after I worked as an intern and a radio reporter, 98 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: started out in San Diego. This was before I would 99 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: host Dodger Talk on the Dodger Radio Network, and also 100 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 1: before my twenty plus year run here at Fox Sports Radio, 101 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 1: before podcasting was even a word, there was the Ben 102 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: and Dave Show. Now we were not big time, however, 103 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 1: we smelled the scent of big Time like a Bassett hound. 104 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 1: We could smell big Time. We walked past and rubbed 105 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: shoulders with big Time. We were down the hall from 106 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 1: Rick Dy's. Now, if you're not in radio, and you're 107 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: not of a certain age, you have no idea who 108 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: Rick D's is. But for those that are of the 109 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: age and those that know the history of radio, Rick 110 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: D's was not only a morning DJ. He printed money 111 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 1: every morning on Kiss FM one h two point seven 112 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: Kiss f M, the iconic top forty radio station in 113 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. And there was Rick Dy's, the morning man, 114 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: right there, booming into those microphones. Now these had the name, 115 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: these had the cachet. He also had gold records on 116 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 1: the wall. Mister Discouck someone that I was well aware 117 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: of growing up in southern California, and he was a 118 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: national figure as well. And on the other side of 119 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: the building from Kiss FM, we had a fax machine, which, 120 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: for you children of the iPhone era, was a machine that, 121 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: believe it or not, would spit out curly pieces of 122 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: paper from random strangers. And this, believe it or not, 123 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: was how listeners to the radio would Texas. There was 124 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: no text messaging back in those days. A facts never 125 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: heard of them. Now. Tried telling a gen Zer that 126 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 1: you once begged people to send you jokes via facts 127 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 1: at midnight on a Wednesday. They'll look at you like 128 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: you're describing the Pony Express, Like what's wrong with you, 129 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: you old head boomer. But somehow it all worked, all 130 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:05,559 Speaker 1: the jigsaw puzzle pieces worked. Now we were daypart nomads 131 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: on the Ben and Dave Show. We did middays, we 132 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: worked nights, we did mornings occasionally. Essentially we were the 133 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: Swiss Army Knife, although we had day parts, as they're 134 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: called in radio. If a shift opened up, they would 135 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: just toss Ben and Dave in there like duct tape 136 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 1: on a leaky pipe, and what do you know, it stuck. 137 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,839 Speaker 1: It stuck. We did game shows that made no sense. 138 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: We picked fights with other LA radio stations because local 139 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 1: radio wars are fun. They're fun. Why not. We handed 140 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 1: the microphone to goofball characters who had no business being 141 00:09:54,640 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: within ten miles of an FCC licensed transmitter. It was chaotic, 142 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: it was dumb, the dumb, dumb, dumb, and it was 143 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: also glorious. And here's the thing about that show. All 144 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: these years later, people listened a lot of people listened 145 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 1: kids would call from their bedrooms with landlines, back when 146 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 1: the phone court would stretch across the hall and go 147 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:25,559 Speaker 1: on and on and on. We're talking about junior high 148 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: school punks dreaming of being the next Mike Piazza or 149 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:31,839 Speaker 1: Nick van Exel, who were the big stars in LA. 150 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 1: Remember at that time, there was no NFL football in LA. 151 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: That was after the Rams had left and the Raiders 152 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: had gone back to Oakland. We had teenagers hiding under 153 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 1: the covers with a walkman, college kids diving around the 154 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 1: valley at one am. Right, we had all of those 155 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:57,199 Speaker 1: things had We had all of those things that were 156 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: part of it. And truckers were there, just like we 157 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 1: have on the overnight trukkers who thought we were either 158 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 1: funny or insane. Long shortman down at the Port of LA. 159 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 1: And those listeners, they're in their thirties, their forties, their 160 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 1: fifties now or older. And those same young punks that 161 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 1: were listening to the Benendeve Show, they've got mortgages, receding hairlines, cholesterol, meds, 162 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 1: bad knees, a sore back, a wife or an ex wife, 163 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:34,319 Speaker 1: kids of their own. However, they remember, all right, they do, 164 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: and so when Dave reached out to me about doing 165 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: a reunion podcast. I hadn't spoken to him in over 166 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 1: a decade. Our lives have taken different turns in different directions, 167 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 1: and your work friends you're not real friends, and so 168 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: you just go your separate ways. And so we set 169 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:02,439 Speaker 1: a time. He hit record, and then the flag is up. 170 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 1: Suddenly here I am twenty two again. I'm in my 171 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,680 Speaker 1: head selling the weight loss wonder drug of the nineteen 172 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: nineties body Shaper, which would become Body Solutions. I'm doing 173 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: live remotes at a Jiffy Lube in Van Eyes at 174 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: seven am on a Saturday, where nobody showed up because shocker, 175 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: no one wants to change their oil and watch two 176 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:37,559 Speaker 1: guys talk about random nonsense into microphones at that hour 177 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:40,599 Speaker 1: on a Saturday, and I know getting yelled at. I 178 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: remember getting yelled at by the program director who was 179 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:48,359 Speaker 1: basically pig vomit from the Howard Stern movie Private Parts 180 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: minus the Charm, Minus the Charm. And this reunion hoot 181 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,319 Speaker 1: and Nanny. We'd agreed was going to be one show. 182 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: It's gonna be one episode. We'll do it, we'll get 183 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 1: it done with. That's it, And it became two shows 184 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 1: and then three shows, and before you knew it, it 185 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: was a bloody mini series that we had in our hands. 186 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: And because once the nostalgia faucet you turn that bad 187 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 1: boy on, it does not stop drinping. Right, whatever, it's 188 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: nostalgic for you, I'm sure you're the same way for me. 189 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 1: This was a very nostalgic conversation. I hadn't thought about 190 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 1: the Ben and Dave show in a long time. I've 191 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 1: met a lot of listeners and my travels around to 192 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 1: the different meet and greets, I'm sure tomorrow I'll probably 193 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: run into somebody who's a Ben and Dave listener. And 194 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,079 Speaker 1: you go through this stuff and you just start remembering 195 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 1: things that you hadn't thought about, and Dave brought up 196 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 1: stuff that I hadn't thought about in a long time. Now, 197 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: if you want to hear any of this, you can 198 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: go over to YouTube. This is not my product, this 199 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 1: is his show. It's not my show. You just search 200 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: on YouTube Dave Smith's Unleashed podcast. And if you weren't 201 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 1: in LA and we have a national following now, which 202 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: we're very lucky to have that stage, if you weren't 203 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 1: in LA back in the nineties or the early two thousands. 204 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 1: This is either going to feel like a fun time 205 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: capsule or like listening to middle aged guys tell inside 206 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: jokes at some dive bar that you were not at. 207 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: And that's fine, that's fine, that's radio. That's audio content. 208 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: I know this is a podcast, but it's audio radio. 209 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: Same thing. Ninety percent of you, and I'm going low. 210 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 1: I think that's actually higher than that. Ninety five ninety 211 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: nine percent will not get it. But for those that do, 212 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 1: whatever percent that is, whether it's one percent, five percent, 213 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: ten percent, whatever percentage of people listening to me right now, 214 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: you know who you are who get it. You're nodding 215 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 1: right now. I was a kid when I started in radio. 216 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: We talked about this with Danny g. Danny was younger 217 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: than I was. I was nineteen at the mighty six 218 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: ninety in San Diego. I was twenty two by the 219 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: time I got my first talk show opportunity, and I 220 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: had my own show for a little bit. Then I 221 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: did the Ben and Dave Show, and I had no 222 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: clue at that time. You start out young, you have 223 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: an idea, you have everything mapped out, and then it's 224 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: the old line that God you make your plans, and 225 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: God laughs at you. Right, you have other ideas for 226 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: your life. And so I had no concept whether or 227 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: not I was going to be chewed up and spit 228 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: out by broadcasting, and I got in the final fumes 229 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: of the glory days of radio. Now, radio to me 230 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 1: is very important, and to you it's very important. It's 231 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 1: changed a lot, it's changed a lot. Three decades later, 232 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: almost well, it turned out that things have worked out 233 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: much better than I could have ever dreamed of. And 234 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: here's the secret that nobody really tells you when you're young. 235 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: And I'm not like, I don't think of myself as 236 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: super Bowl, but it's a good life lesson if you're 237 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: younger and you're listening to this, it's a secret that 238 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: nobody really gives you. The glory days weren't the big days. 239 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: You know, had some really cool things, big moments where 240 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 1: I've been around, certain things that have been legendary and 241 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: things that will be remembered for long long after I'm gone. 242 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: But the glory days, they were the early days, the dumb, 243 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: the messed up, fly by the seat of your pants, 244 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 1: make it up as you go, glory days before the 245 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: glory days and I want you to know if you're 246 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: still listening, God bless you. But if you ever listen 247 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: to the Men and Dave show back in those days 248 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: and you called it, or you sent us a fax, 249 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: or in your head, you played a game show and 250 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: you listen along, and you maybe you showed up to 251 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: a remote that we did at a sports bar, thank 252 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: you and also congratulations because you were part of this. 253 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: You were part of that whole experience which still means something, 254 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: it still matters, and so for that, I thank you. 255 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: I do seriously, I'm not just blowing smoke. Turning the page. 256 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: We go to what I'm calling an American injustice. So 257 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: the other day before I got here to Vegas for 258 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 1: the Malor Meet and greet, which is going to be 259 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 1: tomorrow at three o'clock Vegas time. Three to five. Before that, 260 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:41,640 Speaker 1: in the cavernous hallways of the iHeart Radio Building, home 261 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: of the premier networks, were legends of broadcasting over the 262 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 1: years of work like Casey Cason and Rush Limbaugh right 263 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 1: there in Sherman Oaks, the kind of corporate broadcast palace 264 00:17:56,200 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: where they serve radio with a side of corporate bureaucracy. 265 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: But we don't see that side at night, because we're 266 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: there when those corporate weasels are fastest leep. And so 267 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: I was doing my daily steps. Now, if you don't 268 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: know this, my mischi goosis, my grandfather would say, my 269 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 1: mom would say, during the commercials, and we don't have 270 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 1: a lot of commercials because it's a very popular show 271 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:25,119 Speaker 1: and we do few commercials. So during the commercials, I 272 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 1: attempt to push back the plague that I have been 273 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 1: given of a sedentary job, and I attempt to keep 274 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: my blood flowing. That's right, steps, because that's what you do. Now. 275 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 1: I've done this for a long time. This has been 276 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 1: my one of my things that I've done for a while. 277 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 1: So you count them. You try to get to ten thousand, 278 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: or twelve thousand or fifteen thousand. We're all essentially gerbils 279 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:01,400 Speaker 1: on the wheel of health app, whatever app you use, 280 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 1: and we're competing against time, We're competing against our fellow 281 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 1: homo sapiens. Now, I got the Apple Watch on one wrist. 282 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 1: I've got I guess you could say shame on the other, like, 283 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 1: you gotta do this, you gotta get your steps in anyway, 284 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 1: So somewhere around the corridors in a very short, very 285 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: short commercial break on the Ben Mallor Overnight radio show. 286 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: I hear off in the distance a faint clank. Now 287 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 1: this was a metallic banging sound that I heard off 288 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:49,679 Speaker 1: in the distance in the blue yonder. At first, I 289 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 1: was thinking, well, what is that. It's like, maybe there's 290 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: doing some construction, or maybe there's a janitorial maintenance guy 291 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: that's tightening some bolts somewhere down the hall. And then 292 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:05,880 Speaker 1: I realized, hey, stupid, it's the middle of the night. 293 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: They don't repair things in the middle of the night, 294 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,639 Speaker 1: and other than working on the roads, they don't do construction, 295 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: real construction in the middle of the night. And there's 296 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: nobody else in the building other than the crew that 297 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: was there for the radio show. Okay, So then I'm like, 298 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: what is this? I keep hearing this in and I 299 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 1: was like, did a raccoon get in the ceiling duct? 300 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: Was there a super duper cockroach that was hit with 301 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:41,120 Speaker 1: nukes and was bouncing around the ceiling or worse, a 302 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 1: fentanyl freak or meth head showed up. So I kept 303 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:52,640 Speaker 1: walking and no, that was not the case. So as 304 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 1: I get closer, as you might imagine the way these 305 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: things work, the noise got louder, got a little sharper, 306 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 1: and then the big reveal. It was not a raccoon, 307 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 1: It was not a cockroach that had been hit with nukes. 308 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: Wasn't a fentanyl freak or a meth head. There I 309 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 1: saw in front of me the kid from Liar Liar, 310 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 1: Justin Cooper, the producer of the Ben Maler Show. And 311 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 1: there's Coop standing in front of this much taller, broader monster, 312 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 1: this vending machine. And he's standing there like he had 313 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: just discovered the Rosetta Stone, not the malar of Rosetta Stone, 314 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: the actual Rosetta Stone. However, this was not the Rosetta 315 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: Stone as you might imagine it. This was the stone 316 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 1: that was made out of glass. And behind it, taunting 317 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: Cooper Loop, was a bag, not just any bag, a 318 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 1: bag of guacamole chips. Now you're likely wondering who would 319 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 1: buy quak chips at a vending machine at two in 320 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 1: the morning, Robert Nick Mnison, Well, I will not say 321 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: who that person is, but their name rhymes with koop alop. 322 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: It could happen at any moment, Ben that right there. 323 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: So the chips, though they refuse to budge. So here 324 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 1: I am standing next to Koop and the machines in 325 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 1: front of us, and the quak chips are really wedged 326 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:43,439 Speaker 1: in there, dangling though, just enough where you're like, well, 327 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: I know they're wedged, but maybe maybe that thing's gonna 328 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:53,439 Speaker 1: fall down. And a crime had been committed. A crime 329 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 1: had been committed, and the victim here was Coop. The 330 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: culprit was an early nineteen nineties. This is our person 331 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: of interest in early nineteen nineties. Vending machine. A monstrosity, 332 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,919 Speaker 1: if you will, that's the proper way to describe it. 333 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 1: The great equalizer of office life. Now we were at 334 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,360 Speaker 1: a radio station, but there's an office there as well, 335 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,879 Speaker 1: like the vending machine. Let me tell you what the 336 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: vending machines like. I got the perfect analogy. The vending 337 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:31,360 Speaker 1: machine is like going to the ballet. A beautiful, amazing 338 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: stripper who is programmed to tease, to tantalize, but ultimately 339 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 1: to deny what you want unless maybe you pay extra. 340 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,919 Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I'm just saying. So now I should 341 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: tell you that I leapt into actually be very proud 342 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 1: of me, that I'm not just a gas bag. No, no, no, 343 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,919 Speaker 1: I did the thing that any red blood American or 344 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: Canadian or Mexican would do now here. I am some 345 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 1: just middle aged, red blooded American. I got a couple 346 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: of decades there, sports talk, radio, service time, got a 347 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: bad knee back that's aching. 348 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 3: And here I am trying to tip the machine. I'm 349 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 3: using my superman like strength. I told myself, you must 350 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 3: have been herculean resolve. My internal voice was saying Herculean resolved. 351 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,919 Speaker 3: You know, the drill push from the side, rocket like 352 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 3: a baby rocket, A little bit. 353 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,359 Speaker 1: Not too much, you don't want to tip it over. 354 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:46,160 Speaker 1: Got a rocket like you're moving a stubborn sofa through 355 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 1: a narrow doorway at your apartment. And Coop and I 356 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 1: we start doing this side by side. So I'm on 357 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: one side, Coops on the other. It's like synchronized swimming 358 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 1: versus Goliath, except Goliath is filled with do Rito's, snickers 359 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 1: and PEPSI and sadly, I must report to you, my 360 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:17,120 Speaker 1: fellow member of the mal or militia, but this story 361 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:22,160 Speaker 1: does not, I repeat, does not have a happy ending. 362 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:30,120 Speaker 1: You see, we failed the machine. Despite a minutes long battle. 363 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: The machine did not yield, the chips did not drop. 364 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: Coop walked away, hungry, quacamoleleus no chips, and both of 365 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 1: us were a little defeated. But here's the thing. I 366 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 1: want you to know that we were not failures because 367 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 1: we tried. And that is the mantra for those that 368 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 1: have been on the vending machine battlefield. If you rattle 369 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:04,400 Speaker 1: the cave and the snack does not fall, it's not 370 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 1: you must have quit. It's you're still the man because 371 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 1: at least you had the intentional fortitude to try. You 372 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:21,120 Speaker 1: gave it the old effort. That's what matters. And that's 373 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 1: a pretty good jumping off point. So let's pause right there. 374 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: So vending machines. Vending machines are one of the last 375 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: bastions of American injustice if you think about it. And no, 376 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 1: I am not drinking ayahuasca tea in the Amazon with 377 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 1: Joe Rogan and Aaron Rodgers. Just think about this though. 378 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: Let me workshop this, Let me workshop this, So think 379 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 1: about American injustice. You feed the vending machine dollars, Chris 380 00:26:53,560 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 1: Green dollars or some cases quarters heavy honest, You make 381 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:07,199 Speaker 1: your selection, You punch in a thirteen a thirteen, You 382 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:12,120 Speaker 1: make your selection, and sometimes the machine decides it's stubborn. 383 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,640 Speaker 1: It just says no, It says this is not your day, 384 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 1: and it takes your money. It then mocks you. The 385 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 1: way it mocks you is it dangles your your booty, 386 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:29,159 Speaker 1: your bounty, your prize bounty in plain sight. It offers 387 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:34,160 Speaker 1: no refunds. There's no appeals court, there's no complaint line, 388 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: there's no arbitration panel in New York City. There's no 389 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:45,680 Speaker 1: billboard lawyers saying which vending machine hurts you? You see, 390 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:50,919 Speaker 1: there's just the cool indifference of a little spiral piece 391 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: of metal that refuses to just turn one more time. Now, 392 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: Professor Rashid Wallace taught me years ago, Tommy ben Ball 393 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: don't lie. However, vending machines absolutely do. They absolutely do. 394 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: And here's the kicker. There is a high resolution video 395 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:28,160 Speaker 1: I am talking professional video that's right of this whole thing, 396 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 1: the vending machine brew Haha, this massive hunk of glass 397 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: and aluminum that should be sold at a nineteen nineties 398 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 1: vintage store in you know, it's just mocking its victims. 399 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 1: The beast is under twenty four seven surveillance. I'm talking 400 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 1: about video security cameras. It's like the Pentagon or Fort 401 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: Knox and if Coop and I had been successful and 402 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: tear that statue down, or in this case, topple the 403 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: vending machine. Someone in management, likely in San Antonio, possibly 404 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, maybe in Nashville. Someone in management would have 405 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 1: watched the replay in super duper slow motion, probably set 406 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:30,239 Speaker 1: to yakty sacks, little yakty sacks, and then send it 407 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 1: around the entire iHeart Corporate universe. So theak chips remain 408 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: lodged last I I'm in Vegas now, but last I 409 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: saw they were lodged there. The surveillance tape rolls on, 410 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: and we, meaning Coop and I, we quickly returned and 411 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: we hustled to the studio for more talk radio, and 412 00:29:54,720 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: sometimes sometimes the machine went. Sometimes the man at least 413 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: though you gave it the old overnight radio try, as 414 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 1: we like to say now, I would also want to 415 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: point out that over the years we've had a few 416 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 1: listeners that worked the vending machine game. They would steamroll 417 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: through those vending machines. And if you ever get a 418 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: radio show and you do a midday show, you want 419 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: to have vending machine refill guy as a listener. Because 420 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 1: though at least back in the nineties when we were 421 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 1: doing the Ben and Dave Show we talked about at 422 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 1: the beginning of this podcast, and I will get Dave 423 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 1: Smith on this podcast at some point. I'll get him on. 424 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: But anyway, to continue on here. So, we had a 425 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 1: guy that was doing vending machines and he loved our show, 426 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: the Ben and Dave Show back in those days, and 427 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 1: every once in a while he would show up. He 428 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,480 Speaker 1: never announced he was going to show up, we never 429 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: invited him, but he would show up and he would 430 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: have boxes of Lays, Ruffles, potato chips, he'd have candy 431 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:15,000 Speaker 1: bars and Skittles, all that stuff, and he just handed 432 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,400 Speaker 1: to us because there were always a few extras oozing 433 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: out of the machine, always a few extras. All right, well, 434 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 1: that's enough, we'll get out on that. We'll have a 435 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 1: new podcast on Saturday and Sunday. Here. The Mallor Meet 436 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 1: and Greet is tomorrow, and we'll have some pregame coverage 437 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 1: for the Malor Meet and Greet tomorrow. I know Terry 438 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 1: loves when we do a pregame show. And also a 439 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: story that I want to share with you, and I'm 440 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 1: not gonna I don't want to give it anythingway because 441 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,640 Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what I can say and can't say. 442 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 1: It's been hanging over my head. We'll get to that. 443 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,040 Speaker 1: Have a wonderful rest of your Friday, and I'm going 444 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: to go lose some money in a sports book after 445 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 1: I take a nap, and we'll talk to you next time. 446 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 1: Asta pasta later, skater, Yes, gotta murder. I gotta go