1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: Kabooms. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse the Clearinghouse of Hot 6 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 1: takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 7 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, and 8 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: a happy Saturday to you back in the podcast do 9 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 1: Joe for another addition of the Fifth Hour with Ben 10 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:47,879 Speaker 1: Maller in Danny g Radio for all your podcast needs. 11 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: Every single day there's some kind of audio content that 12 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: we provide you well, very little of that, very little 13 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: of that. But Danny here we are again on a 14 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: wonderful Saturday. This is the next to last Saturday in 15 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: the month of April, and a year is flying by 16 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 1: yet again, another year zooming past us here Danny. Was 17 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: definitely a long work week, so it feels nice to 18 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,759 Speaker 1: get to the weekend right now. And I gotta thank 19 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 1: everybody for the downloads, Ben, because we had some amazing 20 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: numbers last weekend. Yes, thank you for that. That the 21 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: inspiration to continue talking and I want you to know 22 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: that I only talk to you the podcast listener and 23 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: when I'm not doing the podcast, and my wife can 24 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: attest I very rarely even talked to her, Danny. I 25 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: allow her to do all the talking, and I I 26 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: point out, I'm saving my voice. I believe in silence. 27 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: You crickets. All we got on the weekends. I have 28 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: nothing left to say other than the podcast and then 29 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 1: that's it, and so it works out pretty well that way. 30 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: I do have a a bit of a trip coming up, 31 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 1: so I will have some silence, although I guess someone 32 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: have to talk to my relative, so I don't think 33 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: I'll be able to I wish I could, but I 34 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 1: think I have to talk to them, So I'll be 35 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 1: doing a different kind of show. They call it the 36 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: Selene Dion. You need that voice rest two diva move, 37 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 1: but you can pull it as a way to not 38 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: have to talk to certain people. Yeah. It's like Michael Kay, 39 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: the Yankee broadcaster. He had a vocal cord injury, wow, 40 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 1: and he literally could not talk for a while. So 41 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: I could claim that I could claim I have a 42 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,839 Speaker 1: vocal cord injury. Although my problem, Danny, is even when 43 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: I've had vocal cord injuries. I've still worked. I've had 44 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: laryngitis multiple times over the years, and I've I've always worked. 45 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: And my my idea behind that, the reason I've always 46 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: worked is because I've always thought, well, there's there's a 47 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: big boss that's listening. I'm sure the big boss if 48 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: I sound really bad, you know, the the phone, the 49 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: phone will start ringing there and he'll say hey, yeah, 50 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 1: and then they'll say hey, mall or get off the 51 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: air and all that, and then it's never happened. I've 52 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 1: never I've had laryngitis multiple times in the years I've 53 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: done radio. I've never had a program actor at any 54 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: station I've ever worked at called me up and say, Ben, 55 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 1: you probably shouldn't be on the air right now. How 56 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:42,839 Speaker 1: is that possible, Daddy. There were a few times when 57 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: I did the live show with you, not only did 58 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: you barely have a voice left, but we could smell 59 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: you from down the hall. There comes the garlic. Oh yeah, yeah, 60 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: well yeah, the garlic therapy, which the time tested from 61 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: the old Country, the garlic therapy. One time I was 62 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: on the air and our our Sherman Oaks studios and 63 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: it was during a commercial break, and I was feeling 64 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: kind of sick, and I went in the in the 65 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: hallway there and I puked, and then I came back 66 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 1: and did another segment of Radio So Yeah, and it 67 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: was like, you're Michael Jordan's flu game. I haven't puked 68 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: very often. There's only a food poisoning. That's usually what 69 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,479 Speaker 1: gets me from my most people. But I've been pretty 70 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: good at holding my my puke anyway, On that positive 71 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 1: uplifting note, the hell is going on here? What is 72 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: going on? Well, let's take for that puke combo with 73 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:42,599 Speaker 1: some good drops right here. Yes, we're gonna take a 74 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: ride on the vomit comment and bare now not the 75 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: kind of balls I like. You pay me five thousand dollars, 76 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: I'll endorse a game magazine. I have noticed that the 77 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: bombit comment Danny gets a lot of play during the 78 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: playoff us. I use vomit comment much more during the 79 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: NBA playoffs, the NFL playoffs, the baseball playoffs, then during 80 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,599 Speaker 1: the regular season. But on the menu today for your 81 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: listening pleasure, you'll be the judge of that. We have 82 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 1: feeling blue over under do the dip, the butter boner 83 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: and backscratchers. So there's a lot of content to get 84 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: to any very limited amount of time, a finite amount 85 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: of time, so without further ado, and we don't need 86 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 1: to bleep anything unless we do so. Feeling moves. So 87 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 1: this past weekend I made it back out the Dodgers 88 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: state of my first trip on the first Dodger homestand 89 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: it was last weekend to see the Cincinnati Reds the 90 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bros, if you will. And I did put out 91 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: a message at the very last minute on social media 92 00:05:55,320 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: and I said, attention p Once on Twitter, Surprise, motherfucker, 93 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: guess who's in the ballpark? And I actually did running. 94 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: I was walking around Dodger Stam. I ran into a 95 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: few fans of the show. So that was encouraging, Danny, 96 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: not discouraging considering that we've been on in l A. 97 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 1: I've been on another for a long time, but been 98 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: on the Dodger Station, the Overnight Show for many many years. 99 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: And Dodger Stadium celebrating what sixty years there, big deal, 100 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,919 Speaker 1: sixty years. It looked great. I walked all around the 101 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: ballpark and walked out to center field. They had renovated 102 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,159 Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium and it's completely done. They're ready for the 103 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: All Star Game, so that was cool. I didn't notice 104 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: they renovated the press box. That is not done. I 105 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: know you're very concerned about that. They have updated the 106 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:48,159 Speaker 1: press box, which is very odd because I've spent a 107 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: lot of my life in there, and it's weird. They 108 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: expanded the back area of the press box, in the 109 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: back of the dining room. They added a new women's bathroom, 110 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: which is very important me and where do white women at? 111 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: And this is a big one, Danny. They added an 112 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: all gender bathroom in the press box at Dodger Stadium. 113 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:15,239 Speaker 1: It's so to do that. I always said for years 114 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: when I was coming the Dodging So the one thing 115 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: that's missing from this press box in all gender bathrooms. 116 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: And now they've done it. Now they've solved that problem. 117 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: So we're good to go on that. Uh and uh 118 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: and laile blah. Now, meanwhile, I was on a wild 119 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: goose chase to find an item is very important to me. Uh, 120 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: the popcorn machine, Danny. Now, it was not where it 121 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: normally has been. They they just as I mentioned, they've 122 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: done some work there in the press box and spoiler alert. 123 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: Spoiler alert, much to my dismay, Danny. I looked in 124 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: every nook and cranny of that press box and a 125 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: major setback here. Yeah, no more, no more popcorn machine. 126 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: Well the popcorn machine. It's very eighties and nineties. I 127 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: feel like maybe they're trying to push into the future, 128 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: even though the eighties was now what forty years ago. 129 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: I know what you think, it's like twenty years ago, 130 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: but yeuh no. But for years that had been my 131 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: go to staple, good good, bad ugly Dodger baseball didn't matter. 132 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 1: I always had freshly made buttered popcorn and I probably 133 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: gained I estimated over two hundred pounds just on popcorn alone. 134 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: Take that for data. Uh and abracadabric gone in a 135 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: jiffy the popcorn. But it wasn't the I enjoyed being 136 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:46,079 Speaker 1: out there and I got to cut up with it. 137 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 1: I catch up rather but not to kind of catch 138 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: up on the table, but I got to chat with 139 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: a bunch of people I hadn't seen a long time, 140 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 1: so that was always cool. And I gotta tell you, though, 141 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:02,079 Speaker 1: it's weird being there because I have memories of great 142 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: nights at Dodger Stadium and people I hung out with 143 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: good friends of mine. Many of them are not dead 144 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: or they're not working in the radio in radio business anymore, 145 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: and everything's turned over like as you might imagine. I've 146 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: been doing this for a while. So there's a whole 147 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: new generation of writers and broadcasters and not a lot 148 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 1: of friendly faces. So I had I had to search. 149 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: I had to go around Danny and try to find 150 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 1: friendly faces. I found a few. So I you want 151 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 1: the Mallard roll call, and can give you the Mallar 152 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: rule call here, all right? So these are the people 153 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: I actually know that's still cover the Dodgers. Now I 154 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 1: miss some people here. But Himie Harin Hall of Fame, 155 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 1: Spanish voice of the Dodgers sixty four seasons, and I 156 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: think he's retiring this year. I believe this is the 157 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,959 Speaker 1: last year calling Dodger baseball. But that's only three years 158 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 1: less than Vince Scully because maybe Ben retired. How many 159 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 1: years ago it had been retired? Was it twenty? I 160 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: think it was before that. I'll check for you, all right, 161 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: but he's been gone for a few years. That's Fertiliza. 162 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 1: And so Himie Harine, who took over as the voice 163 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: of the Dodgers when a Spanish voice when they moved 164 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 1: to l A. Uh and so he called games at 165 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 1: the Colosseum in l a. He has been at Dodger 166 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 1: Stadium since that place open and so I've known him 167 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: for a long time. He looks great. I couldn't believe 168 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: he's eighties six years old. Himie Harin. Vin retired at 169 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 1: the very end of the Steen season. Yeah, that sounds 170 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: about right, because I recalled during the seventeen World Series 171 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: when the cheating assholes won the World Series this podcast, 172 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: we can call him what they are, assholes when they 173 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: won the World Series, which they didn't actually win because 174 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: they cheated. There were people demanding Vin call a game 175 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: in the World Series and that never happened, and I 176 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: don't think Vin wanted to do it, and so be it. 177 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 1: I believe the offer was made by then Fox broadcaster 178 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: Joe Buck. So I caught with himy mareen, and he's 179 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 1: actually watched me grow up over the years. Royals having 180 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: their problems on the road. I'm Ben Mallick and I 181 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: chatted with David Vasset. We've had him on the podcast, 182 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: host of Dodger Talking. Was my producer back in the 183 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: nineties at the old station. Yeah, he likes to bust 184 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: your balls on the air. Yeah, he bust my balls 185 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: off the here too known as the Youngster, although he's 186 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 1: middle aged and has a family, but we we still 187 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: call him the youngster. And I saw Rick Monday who 188 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: was at Paddle Brian dropping his but Rick Monday, who 189 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: does admit Danny that he's a closeted Mallard militia guy, 190 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 1: that he is a fan of the show. B o 191 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: b uh no, No, Rick Monday po great Rick Monday. No, 192 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: Pat doesn't. Pat hates my guests, but we have had 193 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 1: him on the podcast. Uh, Pat offer every time I 194 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 1: talked to Patty offers to take me to lunch, he 195 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: offers to have me stay at a nice place in 196 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: New York and all that. None of it ever happens. Not. 197 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 1: But Rick Monday was either the man that saved the 198 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 1: American Flag game, the man that saved the flag from 199 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:20,839 Speaker 1: burning at Dodger Stadium, but was not a Cub or 200 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: was not a Dodger. Was a cup round yeah, and 201 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: then soon became a Dodger. Yeah. Shortly after that became 202 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 1: a Dodger. But he was a Cub at the time, 203 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: not a Dodger and that was back Who was that 204 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies? Was then during the Vietnam era? Or 205 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: was that before that? Was that even earlier? Had to 206 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: be Vietnam? Yeah, but it was like seventies, right, and 207 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: then he came to the Dodgers and he played with 208 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 1: them until the yearly eighties. I believe, but I don't. 209 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: I don't have his stats in front of me. Ran 210 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 1: into Charlie Steiner. We've had him on the podcast the 211 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 1: radio voice of the Dodgers there and also part of 212 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: some of the great bloopers. If you're too young to 213 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: remember when Charlie Steiner hosted Sports Center, Holy Cannoli, those 214 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: are some the funniest bloopers ever on television on sports television, 215 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:10,959 Speaker 1: Charlie Steiner trying to get through the teleprompter. Have you 216 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:13,439 Speaker 1: you've seen those over the years, Daniel, he said, doing 217 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: a boxing story and he starts cracking up and stopped laughing. 218 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 1: That's it's hilarious. One of the greatest laughs. Like it 219 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 1: reminded me of when we were little kids at church 220 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 1: trying not to laugh during the song or the prayer, 221 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 1: and the more you try to not laugh, the more 222 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:33,560 Speaker 1: you wind up laughing, and that was Charlie Steiner in 223 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 1: those clips. Yeah, it was. It was hilarious. Uh, and 224 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 1: there were a few other people. Ed Munson, although he's 225 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 1: not supposed to talk to the media. Ed Munson has 226 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,679 Speaker 1: been an official scorer at Angel and Doddery games since 227 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: nineteen eight. That's over forty years, Davy, this guy has 228 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 1: been the official scorer and he's seen and done all 229 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 1: kinds of nonsense out there, and so I was good 230 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,680 Speaker 1: to see him. And and then I made my my 231 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: sojourn around Dodgers Stadium, walked around and was blown away 232 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: by how awesome they did the reconstruction of center Field. 233 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 1: That entrance in center Field under stadium is an amazing visual, 234 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: very very smart because they know we live in the 235 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: age of social media and everyone's gonna want to take 236 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 1: a photo in front of the signs and all the 237 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 1: other crap they've got out there, and so they loaded 238 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: up signs blue Heaven and uh and all that stuff. 239 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: So they did a great job. Yeah, a ton of 240 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: photo opportunities for everybody to post on the I g Yeah, alright, 241 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: So that was my feeling blue trip to Chavez Ravine. 242 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: But I understand Danny you have your own, your own 243 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: experience that you were there before I was there. You 244 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: were there. I was there on opening night, and my 245 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 1: experience was a lot different than yours. Okay, Um, you know, 246 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: we figured that the tickets would be expensive because it's 247 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: opening day slash night. I tried to take care of 248 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: parking ahead of time. On the Dodgers website was how 249 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: much does that say now Dodgers Stadium park For those 250 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: not in l A, which is most of the people 251 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: listen to this, thirty bucks. Now, yeah, show up that 252 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: day to pay for partum, it's thirty bucks, so you 253 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: get it in advance on the website. It saves you 254 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: a big whopping five dollars. That's it. That's it, that's it. 255 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: Five bucks. Got the parking for did you consider one 256 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: of the lots outside Dodgers and only have a cheaper 257 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: lot down the hill near the fire Academy. People talk 258 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 1: about parking outside of the stadium. The problem with that 259 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: is it takes even longer to get out of there, 260 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: and then you wind up walking for two miles. It's 261 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: not worth it at all. All right, Now, I disagree. 262 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: I disagree. I'll tell you because during the playoffs, they 263 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 1: don't let me park in the lot, so I have 264 00:15:55,880 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: to park somewhere else. And my experience is if it's 265 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 1: a sellout crowd, like it's a big crowd of Dodger Stadium, 266 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: if you parked down the hill like in Chinatown or 267 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 1: down to the Fire Academy, spending more money, you probably 268 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: no I know you want. I'll tell you why, because 269 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: if you're take an uber only there. Let's say you 270 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: get an uber near the the Gold Line station in Chinatown, 271 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 1: down the hill and you take it up. What it 272 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 1: is gonna cost maybe ten bucks, maybe twelve bucks maybe 273 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: if you budgeted enough time to do something like that. 274 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 1: But for convenience sake, I don't mind paying the twenty 275 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: five for parking. For parking, and we got up close 276 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: because we were there early enough, so that wasn't a 277 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: huge deal. What piste us off, Ben is we get 278 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: inside the stadium and it was like being smacked right 279 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: in the face. We got to Dodger dogs and a bear. 280 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: How much do you think that costs? Right off the bat? Alright? 281 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: So too dodge of dogs, he said, Normally on the 282 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: dodge the traditional Dodging hot dog, which who knows who 283 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: makes it? Because it's not Farmer John anymore. So two 284 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: hot dogs and then one beer. Now there's all kinds 285 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:07,679 Speaker 1: of different beers. They have the regular beer, they have 286 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 1: the tall beer. I didn't do a complete inventory of 287 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: how much. I know. There was like a bucket of 288 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,640 Speaker 1: a popcorn, which like seventeen bucks or something like that. Yeah, 289 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:19,679 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to that. Okay, all right, because that 290 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: was I couldn't believe it's popcorn. It's kernels in some oil. 291 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 1: And I mean that's seven uh so okay, I'm gonna go, 292 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: what do you think the dogs are eight bucks each? 293 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: So that's I think they're eight bucks now, so sixteen 294 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:38,199 Speaker 1: bucks and then the beer twelve maybe? So what are 295 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 1: we up to? Twenty? Is that twenty eight? And I 296 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: at eight thirty eight, I was off by ten. I 297 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:48,439 Speaker 1: thought I was going high. No, So right off the 298 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 1: bat we were like, okay, a little bit of inflation 299 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: here going on. We'll make it through the night. Though 300 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: you haven't even gotten your seats, and you're you're twenty 301 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 1: five for the parking, you're out thirty eight for the 302 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 1: food and the beer. The hot thought, that's just the starter, 303 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 1: that's the appetizer, right, and you haven't even figured in 304 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,880 Speaker 1: the tickets yet. We had four tickets, all right, hold 305 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: on the met Ben's got his calculator now, and we've 306 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: got thirty eight plus twenty five the tickets. Four tickets. Oh, no, reserve, 307 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: so we had to take the elevator up to the 308 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:30,120 Speaker 1: seventh Okay, alright, so reserve level of Dodger Stadium. So 309 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,880 Speaker 1: but it was opening night. We got the tickets from 310 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: Dodgers dot com. Okay, so you paid full price. You 311 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 1: didn't pay a discount rate. You paid the full price 312 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: and uh per ticket one hundred bucks. You're low, um low? 313 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: Oh no, we shuck again. What are we looking at here? 314 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 1: Oh boy? So the tickets were one seventy each. Whoa 315 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 1: wait a minute, hold wait, one seventy each times four, 316 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 1: So that's six at eighty bucks just on four tickets, 317 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 1: six eight plus the sixty three. So now you sat 318 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: down at your seats, you've paid for parking, you have 319 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: two hot dogs and a beer, but you have four people, 320 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: so that's not gonna feed four people. So that's you're 321 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 1: out seven hundred and forty three dollars. Yeah, that was 322 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:23,160 Speaker 1: just a snack right before we found our seats. Now 323 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: me and my girl's daughter were eating our Dodger dogs 324 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: and my girls drinking her beer because she paid for that. 325 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: So she's probably trying to wash that memory away that 326 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 1: and she made a mistake. And I blame her son 327 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 1: for this because her son was out there trying to, 328 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 1: you know, bother the players for baseballs, uh not the 329 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 1: kind of balls I like. He finally shows up to 330 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,439 Speaker 1: the seats, but now he's telling his mom, well, I 331 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: want to eat. At this point, her daughter can eat again, 332 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 1: even you know, what's a Dodger dog gonna do for 333 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: a growing kid, right, yeah, exactly. And it's not a 334 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:00,880 Speaker 1: thick dog. It's a skinny dog, right right. And that's 335 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: exactly what she told her mom. You know, that's one 336 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: of my complaints. It's not a big dog, it's a 337 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: small it's a skinny dog. It's a petite dog. So 338 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: she gets out of her seat and goes to one 339 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: of the concession stands. Now, I thought she had a 340 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: little bit more time to work with what I didn't 341 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: realize what she was gonna stand in a line that 342 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: was gonna take a half hour though. Now she's missing 343 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: the player introductions and the fireworks going off, which is 344 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:29,879 Speaker 1: the whole point of opening Day. That's what you get. 345 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: We you don't normally get that, and in the game, 346 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 1: in the playoffs, so that's why you're there. You paid 347 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: the premium for the opening day experience. I've seen her 348 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 1: piste off a few times. Then. I wish I could 349 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: have done something, anything to relieve the stress and put 350 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 1: a smile on her face. There was nothing I could do, though. 351 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,159 Speaker 1: She got back. Not only was she mad because of 352 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:59,159 Speaker 1: everything she missed being in that line, but she ordered 353 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 1: to to plates and two cokes. Okay, so that sounds expensive. 354 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,159 Speaker 1: Taketo plates sounds expensive. Yeah, there were cassadillas underneath the 355 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,239 Speaker 1: taketo's okay, two of these, two of these plates and 356 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 1: two cokes over under game? Alright, so I'm gonna say 357 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: the plates are at least fifteen each, but I'm going 358 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 1: low on that. And what else was it? And two cokes? 359 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 1: Ok oh? Boy, coke should be like three bucks, but 360 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 1: they're probably uh eight bucks. I'm gonna go uh, I'll 361 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: say it's gonna blow your mind. Ben, eighty five freaking dollars. 362 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:48,400 Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, hold on, two Taketo plates and two 363 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:53,640 Speaker 1: cokes is eighty cokes are ten bucks? Hold on sect. 364 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 1: So let's do the math. So seven forty three plus 365 00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:01,479 Speaker 1: eighty three, we'll round up eighty five. We're now at 366 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,120 Speaker 1: eight hundred and twenty eight dollars for two Taketo plates, 367 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 1: a couple of Dodger dogs, be tickets and four tickets. Yeah, 368 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 1: and parking. So now you know, at least she got 369 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:18,680 Speaker 1: to see the first pitch, the first st at bat. 370 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,439 Speaker 1: But she was pissed. I get it. I understand watched 371 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 1: the first couple of innings. Whether she's not talking to me, 372 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:30,360 Speaker 1: she's talking to God. I said, um, and I'm like, 373 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 1: you know, damn it, man, why did her kids take 374 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: her to get food at that point of the game, Like, 375 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: you don't get up at that time. It's a rookie. 376 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,400 Speaker 1: It's a rookie mistake. Danny. You gotta if you gotta, 377 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: you know, they haven't been there before. The kids, they'll learn, 378 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: they'll become veterans. You gotta wait till the game starts. 379 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,119 Speaker 1: You gotta pace yourself. You gotta eat a big meal 380 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:49,680 Speaker 1: before you go to the game, so you don't spend 381 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 1: eighty bucks on on food at the concession state. Seriously, 382 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 1: let me go get her a beer. That old calmer down. 383 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,880 Speaker 1: That'll make her feel a little more festive. Here, it'll 384 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: be your second one of the night. That's usually what 385 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,199 Speaker 1: she will have at a game, two drinks. So I'm like, 386 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 1: let me go get her her second drink. So I 387 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 1: get out of my seat in the third inning. Yeah, 388 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: it took me until the top of the six to 389 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: get back. Not only was this line just insanity. I 390 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 1: brought the beer and sunflower seeds up to the guy. 391 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: He said, your total is thirty two dollars, one beer, 392 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 1: one bag of sunflower seeds. Was this the sunflower seed 393 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: bag the size of potato sack or was it? So 394 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 1: now another thirty two dollars, you're out. You add to 395 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: the totally push you in the three too. I got 396 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: the calculator going here, all right, So now you're up 397 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: to eight hundred sixty, eight hundred and sixty dollars. I 398 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: get back to the seat. She smiles when I hand 399 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: her her sour beer made in San Diego. It's taking 400 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: the jo off of things a little bit. But now 401 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 1: later into the game, her daughter is like, I want 402 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,239 Speaker 1: dipping dots because the stupid guy keeps coming up and 403 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,120 Speaker 1: down the rows with the dipping dots, So we don't 404 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 1: know what this guy is charging, but he slides her card. 405 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 1: She orders one last thing because she wanted the holder 406 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 1: that it came in, and that's the tub of popcorn 407 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: you mentioned. Oh no, yes, And on our credit card 408 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 1: statement the next day that said sixteen dollars and forty 409 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 1: six cents. Alright, so well round up to seventeen. Don't 410 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 1: let me had that. It's like your seventeen. So now 411 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: we're eight hundred and eighty nine dollars. So when I 412 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 1: said to start to show that it was a long week, 413 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,200 Speaker 1: it's because we saw a lawyer and we declared bankruptcy. 414 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: Eight could you you could have how much is Disneylan? 415 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: Could you have gone to Disneyland for that much? Or 416 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: and amuse me, we could have in the And it's 417 00:24:56,560 --> 00:25:00,679 Speaker 1: funny you bring up Disneyland, because the irony is Dodger 418 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 1: Stadium was modeled after Disneyland when they were planning it 419 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: and building it. That's why a lot of those old 420 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: school Dodger signs look kind of Disneyland style. That's why 421 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 1: they wanted that southern Cali Disneyland vibe. Well they got 422 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 1: the Disneyland prices. Now, yeah, it's bad. And I love 423 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: the Dodgers to death, you know that, I bleed blue 424 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 1: and I'll continue to give them my money. But there's 425 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 1: gotta be some sort of family night, family specials. There's 426 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,439 Speaker 1: got to be a deal where you could take a 427 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 1: family of four for less than nine hundred dollars. Wow, 428 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 1: that is insanity. I would never go to the If 429 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: I spend nine hundred bucks in the game, I'm never 430 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: going again. And I love the Dodgers and all that stuff, 431 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 1: but that is crazy, especially growing up dated. He were 432 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 1: around the same age that the O'Malley family when they 433 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: owned the team, you know, million years ago, back in 434 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 1: my day. But they would always brag about being a 435 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:03,359 Speaker 1: great deal and wonderful situation. They wore that as a 436 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: badge of honor that it was. It was a family situation. 437 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 1: It was it was very cost effective to go to 438 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,879 Speaker 1: those games for years. But they know they have a 439 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: good team. It seems like there's no limit. No matter 440 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 1: what they charge, people are still paying. I remember when 441 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: I took a business class back in school. Isn't there 442 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,920 Speaker 1: a point where it suddenly becomes too expensive and people 443 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 1: can't afford it? They haven't reached that point yet, but 444 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: they don't. They have to be close, you would think, right. 445 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,919 Speaker 1: As far as the actual ticket prices go, I know 446 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 1: they adjust the tickets based on who the Dodgers are 447 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: playing against. So if you want to say, as you 448 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,679 Speaker 1: want to see the Dodgors play teams, you can go 449 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,160 Speaker 1: for a reasonable amount of money. Right so at least 450 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:49,199 Speaker 1: those seats will be cheaper, so that fluctuates. But what 451 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 1: doesn't change are those food and drink prices and all 452 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: across the boarding life. Right now, we are getting screwed 453 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: with no vasoline on gat selene and food right now. 454 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: So for that to carry over into the stadium, it's 455 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: a bummer. Because I love going to Dodgers Stadium, but 456 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,639 Speaker 1: right now, unless we go on a date night and 457 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 1: we bring our own food in a clear bag and 458 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,400 Speaker 1: do all the tricks, I don't see how anybody could 459 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 1: really afford to go do that more than once or 460 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 1: twice a year. Yeah, and I know it's not just 461 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. This is like Boston. I've been a Red 462 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 1: Sox games and Finway Park is it's always been insane. 463 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 1: I can't imagine what it's like at Finnway now with 464 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 1: the price increases and all that. That's that's gone on. 465 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 1: And I know in New York it's it's craziness as well. Well. Listen, 466 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,439 Speaker 1: some some cities no one's going, like in Oakland, no 467 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: one know what's going to those games. Yeah, they had 468 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 1: a game where they were lucky to break four thousand 469 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,919 Speaker 1: in attendance, and then they moved to time based on 470 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 1: whether a couple of days ago, and there were there 471 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: were predictions that they would barely break a thousand. I 472 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,480 Speaker 1: do there's something about the A's having no fans that 473 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,239 Speaker 1: go to these games now. It reminds me of when 474 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,879 Speaker 1: I covered the Clippers at the sports Arena in the 475 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 1: nineties and sometimes we would be bored because they'd be 476 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: getting boat raced, and we would play a game where 477 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,640 Speaker 1: we would count the fans at the sports arena, and 478 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 1: because there were so few people you could do it. 479 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,199 Speaker 1: You could actually count the people in the arena. And 480 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,919 Speaker 1: I'd take one side, a friend of mine another reporter 481 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 1: would take another side, and we would count the people. 482 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 1: And as I pointed out before, back back then, there 483 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 1: would be more people that would show up in the 484 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,880 Speaker 1: second half. Because the Donald Sterling Clippers in the nineties, 485 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,479 Speaker 1: they would just open up the doors at halftime so 486 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 1: people that didn't have tickets could come in. A lot 487 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 1: of the homeless people to get out of the cool 488 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,480 Speaker 1: night air would come into the sports arena to watch 489 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 1: the second half, and it made for some interesting times. 490 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 1: I got a couple of things real quick. We had 491 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,959 Speaker 1: do the dip. So after the dodging game, I, of 492 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: course I I did not spend nine dollars, but I 493 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 1: was by myself. My wife was out with her her friends, 494 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 1: so I was out schmoozing, meeting, playing grab bass with 495 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 1: the media, and so I wanted some some postgame food. 496 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: Now I ran into West of the four oh five, 497 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 1: who used to co host this podcast. He was out there, 498 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 1: and so I scooted over to Culver City. I wanted 499 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: some gringo tacos, so I went to Tito's Tacos and 500 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 1: no dice, that place was pad locked. They lock up 501 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 1: at eight o'clock, now my favorite taco place. Uh and 502 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 1: they used to be open to eleven o'clock or midnight 503 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 1: on the weekends, but after COVID they just everything shuts 504 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 1: down earlier. So I pivoted to Plan B and I 505 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: went across the parking lot and I did the do 506 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 1: the dip. Have you ever been to Johnny's Pastrami? That's 507 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,960 Speaker 1: pretty good, Lo, cases an old old place, been around 508 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 1: for a long time, I don't know, sixties seventy or 509 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 1: something like that. And for the second consecutive weekend, I 510 00:29:54,960 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 1: was schmoozing with someone eating pastrami by fire and uh, 511 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: and I paid. I want you to know that that pompous, 512 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: arrogant s O b Mr. West of the four or five, 513 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: I'm no one. I am the one that paid for that. 514 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: For that particularly and uh and a quick butter boner's story. 515 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 1: So last weekend around going to the baseball game, I 516 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: was back in the kitchen Danny as Benny the Baker, 517 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,479 Speaker 1: and I decided to make some chocolate chip cookies. And 518 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: I've made this recipe before, but this time I made 519 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 1: a fatal mistake. I attempted to crank up the degree 520 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 1: of difficulty. I made these cookies while I was half asleep. 521 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah, yeah yeah. So in my haste to 522 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 1: get the cookie dough made, I pulled out the Kirkland 523 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 1: brand butter and I ended up with a colossal butter boner. 524 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: I doubled. Actually, no, I think I put four times 525 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 1: the amount of butter in this recipe and it was 526 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 1: supposed to be in there, and uh yeah, it turns 527 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 1: out when you put too much butter in the recipe, 528 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 1: if you don't follow the recipe properly, you end up 529 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 1: getting these weird, paper thin cookies where they're all oily. 530 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 1: And I was pissed. So then I was like, I'm 531 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 1: gonna remake the batch of cookies. But and they came 532 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 1: out all right, but they were still not restaurant quality. 533 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 1: So I've decided that this weekend, maybe even today, around 534 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 1: the podcast stuff, I will remake a different recipe. I 535 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: must perfect the chocolate chip cookie. It has to happen. 536 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna make another batch, a third batch of 537 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 1: of cookies. Here. Last weekend, you were listing off all 538 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 1: the cookies that you've made so far. Yeah, I don't 539 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 1: think you mentioned peanut butter cookies. No, I've not made 540 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,720 Speaker 1: peanut butter cookies yet. I'm not opposed to the peanut 541 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,959 Speaker 1: butter cookie, but I'm a look anto, I made him 542 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 1: steak with the chocolate chip. The chocolate chip is a 543 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 1: classic cookie. You can't f up the chocolate chip. That's 544 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 1: a staple cookie. Everyone loves the chocolate chip Nobody I 545 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,239 Speaker 1: know doesn't like chocolate chip cookies. And I messed up 546 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 1: the chocolate chip cookie. So that's a bad job by me. 547 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 1: All right, real quick, we're sure on top of the backscratcher. 548 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 1: We promised if you scratch our back, we'll scratch your 549 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 1: backs over on the Apple podcast page. So podcast dot 550 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 1: Apple dot com and search the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller. 551 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: You can find our podcast page and give us a 552 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 1: nice review that would help us out a lot of 553 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,320 Speaker 1: five stars. You can also review the radio show podcast 554 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 1: page if you want, but this is where the Fifth 555 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 1: Hour podcast. And if you write something nice, you probably 556 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: think who cares? Nobody reads that? Trust me management at 557 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: I heart reads it. It helps us out. So we 558 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 1: have two reviews here, Danny. First one is from burgerby 559 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 1: I Believe Berg Say Burg. It says podcast porn. The 560 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:02,640 Speaker 1: headline te Dawn, and the meat of the review says 561 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 1: other kind of addiction. This would be podcast porn. Can't 562 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:12,520 Speaker 1: wait for the next podcast. Amazing job, b M and 563 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 1: d G. So there's a fan thank you, and Buddy 564 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 1: Dog Earth Buddy Dog rights and says headline the best. Well, 565 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 1: you know how I feel about the word best Danny. 566 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: That means as good as anyway the best. I absolutely 567 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 1: enjoy each episode. The different topics and formats make the 568 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,560 Speaker 1: show hey joy to listen to each weekend. I look 569 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 1: forward to each and every episode. Well, thank you, Buddy Dog, 570 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,240 Speaker 1: Thanks buddy. He had a lot of momentum in that review. 571 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: He's just trying to hit my buttons here. We gotta 572 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 1: get out of here. We get another podcast on Sunday. 573 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,520 Speaker 1: Any of Promote Danny, any kind of gig, any appearances, 574 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,920 Speaker 1: any comedy acts you've got coming up, you're gonna be 575 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 1: doing an open mic night, anything at all, Go ahead 576 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 1: right now, Promote, Promote, Promote. I will be telling Zingers 577 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,479 Speaker 1: live on Fox Sports Radio as I produced Steve Hartman 578 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,800 Speaker 1: and Jeff Schwartz this afternoon, and then of course the 579 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 1: No Show on the weekend Brian No and E from 580 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,400 Speaker 1: Salam on Saturday evening. Yes on your local Fox Sports 581 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,880 Speaker 1: Radio affiliate or on the I Heart Radio app just 582 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 1: type in fs R or Fox Sports Radio. Have a 583 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:22,120 Speaker 1: wonderful rest of your day and wait for the mail bag. Yeah, 584 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: the mail bag coming up. We'll catch you next time. 585 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:28,040 Speaker 1: See you Aloha, Bye bye later skater, gotta murder, Gotta 586 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:28,160 Speaker 1: go