Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
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
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 2: with Ben Mallard starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with me, Ben
Speaker 1: Mallor and Danny G. Happy Saturday to you, a college
Speaker 1: football Saturday, a baseball Divisional Round Saturday, and Danny G
Speaker 1: is alongside as we navigate the early part of the day.
Speaker 1: But people listen to those podcasts whenever they want to
Speaker 1: listen to this podcast, Danny, So we're here early, but
Speaker 1: we're here whenever you want. The magic of podcast the
Speaker 1: beauty of podcasting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a Yamamoto kind of Saturday. Yes, live
Speaker 3: up to that money. You didn't earn your money during
Speaker 3: the regular season, so earn your money in the playoffs,
Speaker 3: and all past sins will be forgiven.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: Just the parrot what you did when you pitched in Japan,
Speaker 1: and do that in the playoffs here and there will
Speaker 1: be a monsoon of Dodger winns. So I've done the
Speaker 1: math on this, and as long as Yamamoto and Flaherty
Speaker 1: pitch well, the Dodgers should play in the Nation League
Speaker 1: Championship Series right now. The other problem is the bullpen,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to rotate eight million pitchers and
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna have to be right. But that's every team
Speaker 1: in baseball. Every team plays the same way. It's like
Speaker 1: the other day, I was watching the Mets and the Brewers, right,
Speaker 1: and one day it's the Mets reliever who doesn't have
Speaker 1: it and deliver the pitch. It blows the game and
Speaker 1: so the Brewers win. Then the next day, well, I
Speaker 1: actually both pitched. The Mets had a guy that didn't
Speaker 1: pitch well, and then the Brewer guy said, hold my beer.
Speaker 1: He went out there and he was scrambling around. It
Speaker 1: was a disaster. So but it's fine. Playoff baseball is
Speaker 1: always always cool, and we're allowed to talk baseball more
Speaker 1: when the playoffs are going on, and we're not normally
Speaker 1: a baseball during the regular season because it's boring and
Speaker 1: the players are boring, and it's.
Speaker 3: Going to say as an on air producer, I always
Speaker 3: get kind of fidgety whenever Covino and Rich talk too
Speaker 3: much baseball, because in my mind, I feel like people
Speaker 3: are tuning out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I limited, and if you say, if you
Speaker 1: were designing a pie, like what goes into the pie?
Speaker 1: What kind of ingredients? It's you know, the pies. The
Speaker 1: pies mostly NFL, and then but depending on what else
Speaker 1: is going on, like there's a big personality in the
Speaker 1: other like back basketball, we'll talk about that, but the baseball.
Speaker 1: I was actually talking to a buddy mine that does
Speaker 1: radio back East, and we were discussing and he likes baseball.
Speaker 1: He's kind of around my age and our age, and
Speaker 1: he grew up loving baseball, and he's like baseball as
Speaker 1: an industry does not. I don't know what the right
Speaker 1: word I'm looking for is, but they just don't supply
Speaker 1: the content that would provide great sports bait, great sports conversation.
Speaker 1: Just not a lot of meat on the bone. Now,
Speaker 1: in the playoffs it happens organically, but during the regular
Speaker 1: season there's just not a lot there.
Speaker 3: Football, no matter college, mostly NFL. Of course, it's compelling
Speaker 3: to the listeners, Baseball not so much, but in small doses.
Speaker 1: But even college football, it's got to be there's only
Speaker 1: about ten to twenty programs that you can get away
Speaker 1: with talking.
Speaker 4: About coaches in drama.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's everything, But that's the thing like baseball,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot oft We saw a couple of
Speaker 1: stories this week that I thought were good sports radio stories.
Speaker 1: One involved a team that has no fans other than
Speaker 1: my guy, Marlin's Man, where the owner came in there
Speaker 1: and went scorched earth and just napalmed. Everybody got fired,
Speaker 1: seventy staffers, he filed, He fired the guy that cleans
Speaker 1: the jockstraps, because clearly it was that guy's fault that
Speaker 1: the Marlins had a bad team on the field, and
Speaker 1: the traveling secretary who booked the hotels and all that
Speaker 1: he got, like, I mean, the whole thing. So like
Speaker 1: that was I found that amusing. And the Padres trying
Speaker 1: to block the dogs and which is such a bush league.
Speaker 1: They do it every year. It's so bush league, and
Speaker 1: they they're so stupid.
Speaker 3: Why do they do the day a bunch of b
Speaker 3: trying to block the blue out of their stadium.
Speaker 1: You're just going to motivate more Dodger fans to spend
Speaker 1: three hours driving just around San Clemente and Santao free
Speaker 1: to get to San Diego. And you're just gonna annoy them.
Speaker 1: But it's a futile effort, Danny. If a Dodger fan
Speaker 1: wants to go, the podre fan has proven they will
Speaker 1: sell their tickets and they have this thing called the
Speaker 1: secondary market. And one thing I know about my Dodger fans,
Speaker 1: they are not afraid to spend their money on tickets.
Speaker 1: They will spend their money to get into these ballparks. Yes,
Speaker 1: So on this podcast we have the monk Man, sad Doggies,
Speaker 1: no parking, no peace, Pop goes to the culture. You
Speaker 1: got the idiom of the week. I had a lot
Speaker 1: to get to, but we'll start with this. So Buddhist
Speaker 1: monk taking a valve silence. We've all heard that phrase.
Speaker 1: I would assume at one point or another, a Buddhist
Speaker 1: monk taking a valve silence. Now, I canceled last weekend
Speaker 1: all of my plans, all of my plans, in an
Speaker 1: effort to recover from my purple burned tongue. My purple
Speaker 1: tongue for burning my tongue eating food too fast, and
Speaker 1: then reinjuring it pretty much every day. So I was
Speaker 1: usually go out with the wife, we do stuff. I said,
Speaker 1: I can't do anything. My mouth, Yeah, it's all messed up.
Speaker 1: And then I was going to watch some football. We
Speaker 1: were going to pick our college game and we do
Speaker 1: this everyone my gambling buddy, and we load up on
Speaker 1: the game, go big on the game, and then we
Speaker 1: you know, I make I'll make like cheese steak or
Speaker 1: pizza or something like that, have a cheat meal, and
Speaker 1: we'll bet a lot of money on the game. And
Speaker 1: he come over and it's just a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: But I said, I can't do that all because of
Speaker 1: my tongue. Daddy, that's how messed even I did. This
Speaker 1: podcast was so messed up.
Speaker 4: Man, did you try the peroxide?
Speaker 1: I did try the side uh, and I felt like
Speaker 1: it helped my wife. So we shouldn't be doing that
Speaker 1: that whole thing. But I didn't die, Yeah, but not die.
Speaker 1: But she's all good whatever. But she reads everyone reads
Speaker 1: everything on the internet. Who knows what what's not? So anyway,
Speaker 1: the I call me monkman mallor like a Buddhist monk.
Speaker 1: And I read that the Buddhist monk they meditate and
Speaker 1: they have the valve silence. It's part of their spiritual practice,
Speaker 1: and it's to deepen their understanding of themselves, their relationship
Speaker 1: with the world, and that valve silence. It's a discipline
Speaker 1: of the mind. And I want to point out I
Speaker 1: did not have any of that. I do not have
Speaker 1: a better understanding of myself. I do not have a
Speaker 1: better understanding of the world. I have anger that I
Speaker 1: couldn't really eat anything good, and also anger that I
Speaker 1: was so stupid that I burned my tongue because I
Speaker 1: ate too fast and I didn't let the food cool
Speaker 1: down like I'm a child, and it pisses me off,
Speaker 1: which is almost as bad. Now, I will say, Nanny,
Speaker 1: side by side, side by side. The time a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, I think I was working with you
Speaker 1: when I bit my tongue.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 1: That was much worse. So if you have to choose
Speaker 1: between burning your tongue, I could still somewhat function and
Speaker 1: pretend like I was not injured. But I could not
Speaker 1: do that. When I bit my tongue, I sounded like
Speaker 1: Lou Holtz and it was really bad. And that, as
Speaker 1: I point out, one of the great things that I've
Speaker 1: learned doing this job. Overnight, Danny is I can have laryngitis,
Speaker 1: I can have a lisp because I bit my tongue,
Speaker 1: and no one says, hey, Ben, you might want to
Speaker 1: take the night off. No, No, nobody said up saying
Speaker 1: I just keep doing it, just keep doing the show.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. It is so fun that no one, no
Speaker 1: one cares. It's just amazing.
Speaker 3: But are you saying our supervisor aren't up in the
Speaker 3: middle of the night listening to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just saying, even if they're not, they might
Speaker 1: hear the promos of me sounding like Lou Holtz at
Speaker 1: Notre Dame back in like nineteen, you know, eighty whatever.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I digress.
Speaker 3: That part kills me. There's a promo I don't think
Speaker 3: it plays anymore. Finally, but there was a long standing
Speaker 3: promo of you on the network and you could tell
Speaker 3: that you have a cold.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, that's the one clip they find of
Speaker 3: Malord that it used to run like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: I'd hear it like once a day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well even last week. Coop will come in and
Speaker 1: he'll throw He's like, hey, we got to record these spots.
Speaker 1: You know, he'll throw me commercials and I'm like, my
Speaker 1: tongue is killing me. It sound terrible. And also when
Speaker 1: I don't get sick very often, I've been pretty lucky.
Speaker 1: With the garlic stuff that I do, I usually avoid
Speaker 1: any major illness. I'll probably get very sick now because
Speaker 1: I said that, I'll jinx myself. But I've been pretty
Speaker 1: lucky to last ap years in terms of cold flu stuff,
Speaker 1: COVID whatever. And but inevitably, the few times I have
Speaker 1: gotten sick have been during periods of the time where
Speaker 1: we have to record a lot of commercials and then
Speaker 1: those things play for three or four months, and it's
Speaker 1: every time I hear them, I'm like, oh god, this
Speaker 1: is so bad. I get sad, but I'm not a
Speaker 1: sad doggie. I'm not a sad doggie, Danny, I'm not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a quick tip of the microphone to you, Ben.
Speaker 3: You gave me and my oldest pair of Raider tickets
Speaker 3: for last weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad you were able to use my I
Speaker 1: know a guy who knows a guy who knows a
Speaker 1: guy who knows a guy. Yes, I know you love
Speaker 1: the Raiders, and I obviously couldn't go, and I'm not
Speaker 1: ram fan anyway, and I wanted to. I wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure you got to at least one Raider game
Speaker 1: this year, and you were able to. You were in
Speaker 1: I know you've been there before. How was this experience though?
Speaker 3: Noah, So the last game I went to, the first
Speaker 3: game I attended ever at the Death Star was the
Speaker 3: classic Chandler Jones game where Mac Jones got trampled by him. Yeah,
Speaker 3: stiff arm with the Patriots making the bad decisions there
Speaker 3: at the very end of the game that would have
Speaker 3: went to overtime instead, as you remember, the Raiders walk off.
Speaker 3: So that game finished on the final play in spectacular fashion,
Speaker 3: and you still will see replays once in a while
Speaker 3: people say, probably the best Raiders game so far in
Speaker 3: that stadium. How can I trump that? You fired billions
Speaker 3: and billions and billions. I'm like, all right, so we're
Speaker 3: going to drive. Do the stop in Barstow for breakfast
Speaker 3: del Taco?
Speaker 1: What chain restaurant did you go to in Barstow?
Speaker 4: Used the McDonald's that's in the train cars?
Speaker 1: They Oh, yeah, classic McDonald's. Is the Panda Express still there?
Speaker 4: It is? Yeah, that route sixty six.
Speaker 3: There is interesting, you know, because half of it is
Speaker 3: abandoned and the other half is crowded.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they have every shain restaurant you There's a
Speaker 1: Freddy's if you want smash Burgers they have. I've driven
Speaker 1: to Vega. I don't fly to because I'm a pretty
Speaker 1: drive every time, so I know all the desert spots.
Speaker 1: There's Peggy Sus Diner if you want.
Speaker 4: I thought of you when I passed Peggy SU's hermo's.
Speaker 1: You thought of Eddie when you saw Eddie World, which
Speaker 1: is also in yourmal Your mo's are really happened in town.
Speaker 1: There's so much going on. You there's a Raising Canes
Speaker 1: out in the desert. Now they have a few raising
Speaker 1: canes out that way too. Not really a good breakfast place, though.
Speaker 3: I had a pretty good plan in place because I
Speaker 3: booked in Advanced the Orleans. Yeah, and that was strategic
Speaker 3: because they have free parking, one of the few casinos
Speaker 3: with free parking.
Speaker 4: Is huge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's close to a Legion Stadium, so I
Speaker 3: figured we'll get there two hours before the game free parking.
Speaker 3: Our room won't be ready yet, but we could check
Speaker 3: our bags and have them held and then get a
Speaker 3: lift or an uber to the stadium. Yeah, and so
Speaker 3: that's what we did. Modello SURVEYSA they had a tailgate
Speaker 3: party going which was cool with giveaways. They had like
Speaker 3: a gym, plunket, bobblehead and free drinks and samples, and
Speaker 3: the misters were out with fans.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was hot.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was a really hot day, one hundred
Speaker 3: and four degrees there that day.
Speaker 1: Now does it actually cool down in the stadium when
Speaker 1: you're in the stadium, Is it feel comfortable? Is it's
Speaker 1: still hot?
Speaker 3: Cools way down once you're inside the stadium. The only
Speaker 3: problem there with the design of that stadium, I would
Speaker 3: say the seats are made first, I feel like for
Speaker 3: smaller people at least the section we were in, because
Speaker 3: we felt a little crammed. The body heat around me
Speaker 3: made me hot. Guys, I felt a little too cram
Speaker 3: next to the big fat guy that was next to me.
Speaker 3: Other than that, though you got a fabulous view inside
Speaker 3: that stadium. The way they designed it, you don't feel
Speaker 3: like any of the seats are sloping or there's an
Speaker 3: incline like you do it so far at Allegiance. You
Speaker 3: feel like no matter where you're at inside, you have
Speaker 3: a really good view of the field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks and I've not been inside. I've been
Speaker 1: by at the Death Star from the outside, but it
Speaker 1: looks great, and I'm glad it's cool. It's cooler in there,
Speaker 1: because I remember when I did stuff with the Dodgers
Speaker 1: when we'd go to Arizona and they have a dome,
Speaker 1: but they'd leave it'd be like July and they'd leave
Speaker 1: the dome open during bagging practice and they'd close it
Speaker 1: like an hour and a half before the game, and
Speaker 1: it was still blazing hots. Like, what's the point I
Speaker 1: always said, like, what's the point of having a dome
Speaker 1: if you're gonna leave it open all day and then
Speaker 1: close it right before the game. It doesn't like it's
Speaker 1: still like ninety degrees in What are you doing? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Me off, But it was hot there, but you were
Speaker 1: you were having Raider fans. What was the percentage of
Speaker 1: Raider fans?
Speaker 4: That was gonna be my next quick point.
Speaker 3: As we're going up the escalator to the second level,
Speaker 3: there there are some Browns fans right next to us,
Speaker 3: and one of them, with his chest pumped out, tells
Speaker 3: his buddy who's got orange face paint on. By the way,
Speaker 3: he says, this is a home game. This is like
Speaker 3: a home game for us, and they're doing their barking
Speaker 3: chants and everything, and my son and I look at
Speaker 3: each other like wow, wow, and it got worse. Man,
Speaker 3: I had no idea that Browns fans could be so obnoxious.
Speaker 3: They haven't won anything, right, No, not in my life
Speaker 3: and not in my lifetime either.
Speaker 1: They have what they have. I've noticed the Browns fans,
Speaker 1: and I think they have a little bit of that
Speaker 1: Bill's mafia, that that region, you know, the Great Lakes region, gritty,
Speaker 1: you know, that that whole vibe, except at least the
Speaker 1: Bills now are good and at least they can back
Speaker 1: it up a little bit.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, And that was my one hope was
Speaker 3: that the creepy quarterback would you know, wet the bed
Speaker 3: and Amari Cooper would have some big drops and their
Speaker 3: vaunted defense would make some mistakes.
Speaker 1: Appeared that the brown scored a touchdown until they did,
Speaker 1: you know, right away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because that happened in our end zone where we
Speaker 3: were sitting and we saw the hold right in front
Speaker 3: of us. Oh he actually the Brownie got a hold
Speaker 3: of some jersey besides grabbing the player.
Speaker 1: I was watching on TV. I did not see it,
Speaker 1: and so I thought, oh, oh crap.
Speaker 3: There was a video where some sad Browns fans were
Speaker 3: showing could you believe they called this a hold? But
Speaker 3: it was from the other side, It's hard to see
Speaker 3: what was going on, and of course they were showing
Speaker 3: that angle.
Speaker 4: It clearly was a hold.
Speaker 3: The fans in my section that had this ugly pooh
Speaker 3: colored Brownie stuff on, they were very They were very opinionated.
Speaker 3: They were very in your face type fans. That's what
Speaker 3: surprised me, because no Raider fans were antagonizing them or
Speaker 3: really paying attention to them. But there was this one
Speaker 3: Browns fan in the row right above us, and anytime
Speaker 3: the Browns did anything good in the game, he would
Speaker 3: flip us the double birds. He was doing this the
Speaker 3: whole game until Raiders defense stepped up big there shut
Speaker 3: the door on the Browns. Raiders win the game, walk
Speaker 3: off with that defensive play. The Raiders fans that are
Speaker 3: in attendance are jumping up and down, celebrating as you
Speaker 3: would imagine, and these Brownies fans, who were very confident
Speaker 3: and very loud and very bark tacular. The amount of
Speaker 3: barking they do is amazing. They even did a thing
Speaker 3: where they would like do account and then they would
Speaker 3: all bark on Q together.
Speaker 1: Oh sacredie barking.
Speaker 4: That's good.
Speaker 1: Yes, I saw that at a dog park one.
Speaker 3: After that walk off defensive play by the Raiders, I
Speaker 3: was videotaping the guy who had been flipping us the
Speaker 3: double birds, and I was barking at him and telling
Speaker 3: him to have a nice trip home, don't let the
Speaker 3: doors hitch.
Speaker 4: You on the way out.
Speaker 3: And when he walked past me, he said, if you
Speaker 3: come to a Cleveland game, we'll show you what's up
Speaker 3: there at he said to me, And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: first of all, I ain't going to a game in Cleveland,
Speaker 3: but if I did, I wouldn't have my chest out,
Speaker 3: you know, doing Raider chance in your face.
Speaker 1: Buddy, Well you should have done is quoted the great
Speaker 1: joke him Noah and said Cleveland. Who goes to vacation
Speaker 1: with Cleveland. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I felt like they thought that they were in a
Speaker 3: much nicer Cleveland, and they really were acting as if
Speaker 3: they were at a home game. Now, some of that
Speaker 3: is the season ticket holder's fault. They didn't like the
Speaker 3: performance the weekend before against the Panthers, which I understand,
Speaker 3: but you don't give up on your team after one
Speaker 3: bad game.
Speaker 1: It's a great investment if you live in Vegas, or
Speaker 1: even if you're not in Vegas, it's a wonderful investment.
Speaker 1: Those are the most expensive seats in the NFL. Every week,
Speaker 1: like the Raiders have the most expensive tickets. So if
Speaker 1: you live in Vegas and you buy at face value
Speaker 1: and then you can sell every ticket and make over
Speaker 1: face value, you're making money on it. And then maybe
Speaker 1: you want to go to a game or two and
Speaker 1: that's it, and then the rest of them you sell.
Speaker 1: So I understand why people do it, but as a fan,
Speaker 1: it sucks, and especially a team like the Raiders that
Speaker 1: always had such a passionate fan base and it was
Speaker 1: always always, at least on TV, even when the Raiders
Speaker 1: were bad, they always had tons of fans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's that's the stark contrast, as the analysts
Speaker 3: on TV would say, Because you're right. I was a
Speaker 3: ten year season ticket holder in Oakland and if there
Speaker 3: was a Browns family there, they would be Specs in
Speaker 3: the crowd because everything else would be silver and black.
Speaker 3: You really could see the visitors there because they stood
Speaker 3: out like a sore thumb. It was not a place
Speaker 3: that visiting fans would go to. And then now in
Speaker 3: Vegas it's the other way around, where you have so
Speaker 3: many visiting fans inundating your stadium that it does feel
Speaker 3: almost like a home game for them, which could kind
Speaker 3: of get embarrassing. It was seventy percent Browns fans is
Speaker 3: seventy percent.
Speaker 4: That's just too much. Man.
Speaker 3: Now, we knew it was a trade off getting that
Speaker 3: nice new stadium in a place like Vegas where people
Speaker 3: already visit and already make their plans to go to
Speaker 3: that city ahead of time, and now obviously, oh let's
Speaker 3: make a weekend out of seeing our team there. We
Speaker 3: knew the Raider fan base knew that the trade off
Speaker 3: was there's going to be a visiting fans now coming in.
Speaker 3: I didn't know at this clip though. That's what's bad
Speaker 3: is that half and half. Even I could live with
Speaker 3: seventy thirty. That's just that's well, that's pitiful.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Raiders actually become a real the Raiders
Speaker 1: have a chance to contend. I still believe even with
Speaker 1: all the drama that's going on, I still think they
Speaker 1: have a chance to contend for a wild card spot,
Speaker 1: because all you have to do is get to nine
Speaker 1: or ten wins, and they have enough bad teams they play.
Speaker 1: I lost to a bad team already, But if they
Speaker 1: just win a few of those games and they've already
Speaker 1: pulled an upset for a team that we thought they
Speaker 1: would lose to the Ravens, so or most people did, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the opportunity, but it's like I would I would say,
Speaker 1: like the Patriots. I remember when I first started to
Speaker 1: do we talked about this a few times. But for
Speaker 1: those that haven't heard, like when I started doing sports
Speaker 1: radio and we were on in Boston, the Patriots had
Speaker 1: a horrible reputation. They'd never won anything. They had been
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl a few times, but they weren't
Speaker 1: very good. And they became this juggernaut. And for the
Speaker 1: first like ten years of that, like guys would call
Speaker 1: up from Boston, but they weren't Patriot fans. They were
Speaker 1: fans of the Jets, of the Giants because the team
Speaker 1: had been so bloh whatever. But now everyone in New England,
Speaker 1: all the kids that have grown up, were the last
Speaker 1: generation are all fans of pitches, but even in like Vegas,
Speaker 1: and people will stop selling their tickets because or not
Speaker 1: as many of them will sell it to.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: The one thing I'll say about that stadium besides it
Speaker 3: having a nice view from wherever you're at, the food
Speaker 3: in there is tremendous. They have done a great job
Speaker 3: with the variety and the quality of the food. It
Speaker 3: is pricey, like all the food in Las Vegas, but
Speaker 3: the variety and the quality of all the different vendors
Speaker 3: in there. They get a ten out of ten with
Speaker 3: their food at that stadium.
Speaker 1: And this was rare and appropriate. Right, you're not going
Speaker 1: to go to a lot of these games. So did
Speaker 1: you enjoy? Did you indulge? What was the top thing
Speaker 1: that you ate?
Speaker 3: We got a barbecue brisket burrito, Tell me more, Tell
Speaker 3: me more. And my son and I both read the
Speaker 3: ingredients up on the board when we were standing in
Speaker 3: this line and we're like, man, we got to get
Speaker 3: that brisket burrito. It was thirty six bucks for two
Speaker 3: of them, so not cheap but worth every bite. We
Speaker 3: bit into this brisket burrito and looked at each other,
Speaker 3: We're like, oh, Man, they're on point with their food
Speaker 3: here at this place, because I remember spending the same
Speaker 3: amount of money when I went to a Raiders Rams
Speaker 3: game in the preseason a couple of years back, and
Speaker 3: the food there was garbage expensive with no flavor. They
Speaker 3: gave us a ton of free doctor Pepper's ben when
Speaker 3: we first walked into that Modello tailgate zone. Okay, the
Speaker 3: problem is you can't walk those into the stadium.
Speaker 1: She had to drink them in as fast as you can.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you saw people chugging doctor peppers. We get
Speaker 3: the last thing on it. When we got to the
Speaker 3: Orleans to check our bags and check out the sports
Speaker 3: book before we got our uber, there were lots of
Speaker 3: Browns jerseys in there. There were Raider jerseys too, but
Speaker 3: there was a lot of Browns fans inside the casino
Speaker 3: Slash hotel. When we got back to the hotel after
Speaker 3: waiting in the uber line at the stadium, there were
Speaker 3: no brown jerseys to be seen anywhere, not at the restaurant.
Speaker 3: There no Browns fans, just Raider jerseys. The tables at
Speaker 3: the sports book that we popped into there they renovated.
Speaker 4: They have one nice new sports book in there.
Speaker 1: I've been in there in a while. I did they
Speaker 1: still have the frogs they used to have frogs out frogs?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: They have that Marty Gras slash New Orleans frog vibe. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they have the big frogs when you first walk in,
Speaker 3: like playing the saxophone and the Marty Gras instruments.
Speaker 4: Yeah, cool vibe in there.
Speaker 3: But my son and I both looked at each other
Speaker 3: and were like, what magically happened to all the Browns
Speaker 3: fans that we saw, you know, in here prior to
Speaker 3: the game. So our theory is that they all went
Speaker 3: to their rooms, changed out of their Browns crap, and
Speaker 3: then got into some you know, play clothes and went
Speaker 3: back down to the machines.
Speaker 1: It was a wardrobe adjustment that took place there.
Speaker 4: It had to have.
Speaker 3: It had to have been because they were so proud
Speaker 3: of that ugly brown color prior to the game, and
Speaker 3: then afterwards we saw none of it being represented.
Speaker 1: You got crickets. That's all we got. All right. A
Speaker 1: couple of things. I just want to mention, no parking,
Speaker 1: no peace. So while you were at the Raider game,
Speaker 1: I had every intention I had planned on being at
Speaker 1: the Chiefs Chargers game. I was supposed to attend the
Speaker 1: game at so far there was a cluster f that
Speaker 1: I did not go. And the reason I was going
Speaker 1: to go, I have some friends that work for the
Speaker 1: Chiefs that I wanted to see that on the radio
Speaker 1: side for the Chiefs, So I was going to go out.
Speaker 1: And they only come into LA once a year, so
Speaker 1: I go out and see them and hang out watch
Speaker 1: the game. It was a game I was interested in,
Speaker 1: but I got a whole routine. So there was a
Speaker 1: cluster f involving the parking. I got an email. The
Speaker 1: way this works and when you're you're going to a
Speaker 1: game in the media, you get an email saying, hey,
Speaker 1: you've been approved. You know, you get a pass whatever.
Speaker 1: But there's a couple layers to it because they also
Speaker 1: have to there's parking that's part of it as well,
Speaker 1: and that's separate, and I have a rule. I'm at
Speaker 1: the point now in my life I'm officially middle aged Danny.
Speaker 1: If I don't get the parking, I don't go. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not dealing with the bull crap. I don't
Speaker 1: want any part of it. I already had one parking
Speaker 1: incident I talked about on a previous episode of this podcast.
Speaker 1: So I get approved from this charger person and normally
Speaker 1: what happens is within a couple hours they'll send the parking.
Speaker 1: It's no problem. I just that I've done this for
Speaker 1: years and that's just yeah, I work. But I didn't
Speaker 1: get that second message saying here's your parking. Uh oh,
Speaker 1: So it guess to Friday night. You know, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to plan my weekend and nothing, So I send I
Speaker 1: shoot an email. On Saturday when I woke up, I
Speaker 1: shoot an email to the charges, hey I haven't gotten
Speaker 1: the parking yet. And a couple hours later I got
Speaker 1: an email back from one of the PR people for
Speaker 1: the chargers like, well, we sent it to somebody else
Speaker 1: who works at your company, but that's not me. Why
Speaker 1: didn't you just send it to me? You always say this.
Speaker 1: I was like, I didn't understand that, So then I
Speaker 1: contact I will not name the person, but I contacted
Speaker 1: the person. They were like, well, I don't know how
Speaker 1: to get in the app. I don't know the password.
Speaker 1: I don't use the app, you know, just I don't.
Speaker 1: I can't figure it out. So we're going back and forth.
Speaker 1: It got to about ten o'clock on Saturday, and that
Speaker 1: was my cutoff, and I'm like, I'm not going, and
Speaker 1: so then I get up to watch the games. And
Speaker 1: the games start on the West Coast at ten in
Speaker 1: the morning. But I'm up, I'm watching the games and
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I'm not going to the Charger game.
Speaker 1: So it gets to ten thirty seven. I wrote down
Speaker 1: the time, Danny. Ten thirty seven, I get a text,
Speaker 1: all right, here's your parking. Well I can't. Well, you
Speaker 1: know where I lived in I can't. It's a hole
Speaker 1: to do to get to Sofi Stadium from where I
Speaker 1: live from the North Woods and so plus I have
Speaker 1: to go to bed earlier because I have to drive,
Speaker 1: and I have to stay out that way. It's a
Speaker 1: hole to do, right, I gotta go to the game,
Speaker 1: which is fine. I enjoy going to the game, and
Speaker 1: I got to get there early. I get there to
Speaker 1: watch the early games on my laptop, and then I
Speaker 1: watched the Chiefs game and I schmooze a little bit,
Speaker 1: and it's that whole thing. But at ten thirty seven
Speaker 1: in the morning, the early games had all kicked off,
Speaker 1: so I'm watching that. It would have taken me probably
Speaker 1: two hours to get to the stadium. It would have
Speaker 1: taken me another hour to get in, so I would
Speaker 1: have gotten in after kickoff. If I'm lucky, I would
Speaker 1: have gotten in by the end of the first quarter.
Speaker 1: Maybe not, but then I'd still I wouldn't have been
Speaker 1: able to see The whole point of going was to
Speaker 1: get there early because my guys I wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to see that they're working during the game. And so
Speaker 1: as I asked, threw it so I didn't go. Ah,
Speaker 1: And at this point, like I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I love going to games, but it's like it's such
Speaker 1: a They've made it so inconvenient, and it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I don't need it. I mean, I'll go occasionally,
Speaker 1: but it's just a better for me watching flipping around
Speaker 1: watching the games on TV. It's like you see everything
Speaker 1: you know, and I see everything on my computer. But
Speaker 1: it's just I don't know, it's a different thing. It
Speaker 1: just left a bad taste in my mouth because it's
Speaker 1: just bad, you know, bad pr work or whatever. One
Speaker 1: more thing. Let's get to the let's see you what
Speaker 1: do we want to do here? We have the always
Speaker 1: exciting idiom of the week.
Speaker 4: Idiom of the week.
Speaker 1: All right, this week it is it's no skin off
Speaker 1: my nose, No skin off my nose, which is some
Speaker 1: people say no skin off my back, but there's other
Speaker 1: people that say no skin off my nose. It obviously
Speaker 1: means I think we all know, maybe not. It doesn't
Speaker 1: bother you, whatever's going on. So there's a number of
Speaker 1: different theories regarding the source of this. However, the one
Speaker 1: that is most often used it goes back to the
Speaker 1: early twentieth century, from the world of boxing. The earliest
Speaker 1: recorded use was found in nineteen ten by Cosmopolitan magazine
Speaker 1: and it was called the Cosmopolitan the family magazine, and
Speaker 1: they use that. But others disagree with that that it
Speaker 1: does not come from boxing. Others claim that the word
Speaker 1: of the phrase not from boxing, but from the mill,
Speaker 1: people working in the mill, and that it's actually the
Speaker 1: opposite of putting your nose to the grindstone, that the
Speaker 1: fact that there is no skin off your nose meant
Speaker 1: that you were lazy, you didn't work hard, and that's
Speaker 1: why there was no skin off your nose, because you
Speaker 1: didn't put your nose to the grindstone and all that.
Speaker 1: So it's gone back and forth. A lot of people
Speaker 1: think it's the boxing one, but there are people that
Speaker 1: also say it's the other one. So it's one of
Speaker 1: those two. The origins of it's no Skin Off My Back,
Speaker 1: and there's also a version of no Skin Off My teeth,
Speaker 1: which is like a weird version of that. So anyway,
Speaker 1: that's that. Anything Danny going on, I'll be watching baseball
Speaker 1: and college football all day to day. Anything you got
Speaker 1: going on.
Speaker 3: Well, there's supposed to be a birthday celebration for our
Speaker 3: daughter happening later this morning at Wayna Park where as
Speaker 3: you know, knots Berry Farm resides.
Speaker 1: Oh, Vietnaught. It's gonna be hanging out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's supposed to be a hot day there, so
Speaker 3: we're going to hang out as long as we can
Speaker 3: make it and try to be back in the afternoon
Speaker 3: for the first pitch of the Dodgers game.
Speaker 1: All right, that's the Dodgers are playing I think five
Speaker 1: thirty our time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a five thirty eight first pitch. All right.
Speaker 3: You know who's got the most punishable face in all
Speaker 3: of baseball? Would that be Manny Machado?
Speaker 1: And he's an ex Dodger who said he didn't want
Speaker 1: to play on the West Coast, and then took a
Speaker 1: ten year contract from the Padres, which I think are
Speaker 1: on the West Coast, but I don't know.
Speaker 4: Hey Ben, he's no Johnny Hustle. Okay, yeah, a legend.
Speaker 1: I saw it the longest single in World Series history
Speaker 1: against the Red Sox. Remember he hit the ball off
Speaker 1: the wall and thought it was gone, so he was like,
Speaker 1: shooted any first base? Yeah, wonderful, all right, having a
Speaker 1: wonderful Saturday. We got the mail bag on Sunday. Tell
Speaker 1: a friend, tell a friend about the podcast, help us out,
Speaker 1: keep the pirate ship floating, and we'll talk to you
Speaker 1: next time.
Speaker 4: Later. Skater my flat