Speaker 1: Kabooms. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse the Clearinghouse of Hot
Speaker 1: takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, and
Speaker 1: a happy Saturday to you back in the podcast do
Speaker 1: Joe for another addition of the Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller in Danny g Radio for all your podcast needs.
Speaker 1: Every single day there's some kind of audio content that
Speaker 1: we provide you well, very little of that, very little
Speaker 1: of that. But Danny here we are again on a
Speaker 1: wonderful Saturday. This is the next to last Saturday in
Speaker 1: the month of April, and a year is flying by
Speaker 1: yet again, another year zooming past us here Danny. Was
Speaker 1: definitely a long work week, so it feels nice to
Speaker 1: get to the weekend right now. And I gotta thank
Speaker 1: everybody for the downloads, Ben, because we had some amazing
Speaker 1: numbers last weekend. Yes, thank you for that. That the
Speaker 1: inspiration to continue talking and I want you to know
Speaker 1: that I only talk to you the podcast listener and
Speaker 1: when I'm not doing the podcast, and my wife can
Speaker 1: attest I very rarely even talked to her, Danny. I
Speaker 1: allow her to do all the talking, and I I
Speaker 1: point out, I'm saving my voice. I believe in silence.
Speaker 1: You crickets. All we got on the weekends. I have
Speaker 1: nothing left to say other than the podcast and then
Speaker 1: that's it, and so it works out pretty well that way.
Speaker 1: I do have a a bit of a trip coming up,
Speaker 1: so I will have some silence, although I guess someone
Speaker 1: have to talk to my relative, so I don't think
Speaker 1: I'll be able to I wish I could, but I
Speaker 1: think I have to talk to them, So I'll be
Speaker 1: doing a different kind of show. They call it the
Speaker 1: Selene Dion. You need that voice rest two diva move,
Speaker 1: but you can pull it as a way to not
Speaker 1: have to talk to certain people. Yeah. It's like Michael Kay,
Speaker 1: the Yankee broadcaster. He had a vocal cord injury, wow,
Speaker 1: and he literally could not talk for a while. So
Speaker 1: I could claim that I could claim I have a
Speaker 1: vocal cord injury. Although my problem, Danny, is even when
Speaker 1: I've had vocal cord injuries. I've still worked. I've had
Speaker 1: laryngitis multiple times over the years, and I've I've always worked.
Speaker 1: And my my idea behind that, the reason I've always
Speaker 1: worked is because I've always thought, well, there's there's a
Speaker 1: big boss that's listening. I'm sure the big boss if
Speaker 1: I sound really bad, you know, the the phone, the
Speaker 1: phone will start ringing there and he'll say hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then they'll say hey, mall or get off the
Speaker 1: air and all that, and then it's never happened. I've
Speaker 1: never I've had laryngitis multiple times in the years I've
Speaker 1: done radio. I've never had a program actor at any
Speaker 1: station I've ever worked at called me up and say, Ben,
Speaker 1: you probably shouldn't be on the air right now. How
Speaker 1: is that possible, Daddy. There were a few times when
Speaker 1: I did the live show with you, not only did
Speaker 1: you barely have a voice left, but we could smell
Speaker 1: you from down the hall. There comes the garlic. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well yeah, the garlic therapy, which the time tested from
Speaker 1: the old Country, the garlic therapy. One time I was
Speaker 1: on the air and our our Sherman Oaks studios and
Speaker 1: it was during a commercial break, and I was feeling
Speaker 1: kind of sick, and I went in the in the
Speaker 1: hallway there and I puked, and then I came back
Speaker 1: and did another segment of Radio So Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: was like, you're Michael Jordan's flu game. I haven't puked
Speaker 1: very often. There's only a food poisoning. That's usually what
Speaker 1: gets me from my most people. But I've been pretty
Speaker 1: good at holding my my puke anyway, On that positive
Speaker 1: uplifting note, the hell is going on here? What is
Speaker 1: going on? Well, let's take for that puke combo with
Speaker 1: some good drops right here. Yes, we're gonna take a
Speaker 1: ride on the vomit comment and bare now not the
Speaker 1: kind of balls I like. You pay me five thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: I'll endorse a game magazine. I have noticed that the
Speaker 1: bombit comment Danny gets a lot of play during the
Speaker 1: playoff us. I use vomit comment much more during the
Speaker 1: NBA playoffs, the NFL playoffs, the baseball playoffs, then during
Speaker 1: the regular season. But on the menu today for your
Speaker 1: listening pleasure, you'll be the judge of that. We have
Speaker 1: feeling blue over under do the dip, the butter boner
Speaker 1: and backscratchers. So there's a lot of content to get
Speaker 1: to any very limited amount of time, a finite amount
Speaker 1: of time, so without further ado, and we don't need
Speaker 1: to bleep anything unless we do so. Feeling moves. So
Speaker 1: this past weekend I made it back out the Dodgers
Speaker 1: state of my first trip on the first Dodger homestand
Speaker 1: it was last weekend to see the Cincinnati Reds the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bros, if you will. And I did put out
Speaker 1: a message at the very last minute on social media
Speaker 1: and I said, attention p Once on Twitter, Surprise, motherfucker,
Speaker 1: guess who's in the ballpark? And I actually did running.
Speaker 1: I was walking around Dodger Stam. I ran into a
Speaker 1: few fans of the show. So that was encouraging, Danny,
Speaker 1: not discouraging considering that we've been on in l A.
Speaker 1: I've been on another for a long time, but been
Speaker 1: on the Dodger Station, the Overnight Show for many many years.
Speaker 1: And Dodger Stadium celebrating what sixty years there, big deal,
Speaker 1: sixty years. It looked great. I walked all around the
Speaker 1: ballpark and walked out to center field. They had renovated
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium and it's completely done. They're ready for the
Speaker 1: All Star Game, so that was cool. I didn't notice
Speaker 1: they renovated the press box. That is not done. I
Speaker 1: know you're very concerned about that. They have updated the
Speaker 1: press box, which is very odd because I've spent a
Speaker 1: lot of my life in there, and it's weird. They
Speaker 1: expanded the back area of the press box, in the
Speaker 1: back of the dining room. They added a new women's bathroom,
Speaker 1: which is very important me and where do white women at?
Speaker 1: And this is a big one, Danny. They added an
Speaker 1: all gender bathroom in the press box at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: It's so to do that. I always said for years
Speaker 1: when I was coming the Dodging So the one thing
Speaker 1: that's missing from this press box in all gender bathrooms.
Speaker 1: And now they've done it. Now they've solved that problem.
Speaker 1: So we're good to go on that. Uh and uh
Speaker 1: and laile blah. Now, meanwhile, I was on a wild
Speaker 1: goose chase to find an item is very important to me. Uh,
Speaker 1: the popcorn machine, Danny. Now, it was not where it
Speaker 1: normally has been. They they just as I mentioned, they've
Speaker 1: done some work there in the press box and spoiler alert.
Speaker 1: Spoiler alert, much to my dismay, Danny. I looked in
Speaker 1: every nook and cranny of that press box and a
Speaker 1: major setback here. Yeah, no more, no more popcorn machine.
Speaker 1: Well the popcorn machine. It's very eighties and nineties. I
Speaker 1: feel like maybe they're trying to push into the future,
Speaker 1: even though the eighties was now what forty years ago.
Speaker 1: I know what you think, it's like twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: but yeuh no. But for years that had been my
Speaker 1: go to staple, good good, bad ugly Dodger baseball didn't matter.
Speaker 1: I always had freshly made buttered popcorn and I probably
Speaker 1: gained I estimated over two hundred pounds just on popcorn alone.
Speaker 1: Take that for data. Uh and abracadabric gone in a
Speaker 1: jiffy the popcorn. But it wasn't the I enjoyed being
Speaker 1: out there and I got to cut up with it.
Speaker 1: I catch up rather but not to kind of catch
Speaker 1: up on the table, but I got to chat with
Speaker 1: a bunch of people I hadn't seen a long time,
Speaker 1: so that was always cool. And I gotta tell you, though,
Speaker 1: it's weird being there because I have memories of great
Speaker 1: nights at Dodger Stadium and people I hung out with
Speaker 1: good friends of mine. Many of them are not dead
Speaker 1: or they're not working in the radio in radio business anymore,
Speaker 1: and everything's turned over like as you might imagine. I've
Speaker 1: been doing this for a while. So there's a whole
Speaker 1: new generation of writers and broadcasters and not a lot
Speaker 1: of friendly faces. So I had I had to search.
Speaker 1: I had to go around Danny and try to find
Speaker 1: friendly faces. I found a few. So I you want
Speaker 1: the Mallard roll call, and can give you the Mallar
Speaker 1: rule call here, all right? So these are the people
Speaker 1: I actually know that's still cover the Dodgers. Now I
Speaker 1: miss some people here. But Himie Harin Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: Spanish voice of the Dodgers sixty four seasons, and I
Speaker 1: think he's retiring this year. I believe this is the
Speaker 1: last year calling Dodger baseball. But that's only three years
Speaker 1: less than Vince Scully because maybe Ben retired. How many
Speaker 1: years ago it had been retired? Was it twenty? I
Speaker 1: think it was before that. I'll check for you, all right,
Speaker 1: but he's been gone for a few years. That's Fertiliza.
Speaker 1: And so Himie Harine, who took over as the voice
Speaker 1: of the Dodgers when a Spanish voice when they moved
Speaker 1: to l A. Uh and so he called games at
Speaker 1: the Colosseum in l a. He has been at Dodger
Speaker 1: Stadium since that place open and so I've known him
Speaker 1: for a long time. He looks great. I couldn't believe
Speaker 1: he's eighties six years old. Himie Harin. Vin retired at
Speaker 1: the very end of the Steen season. Yeah, that sounds
Speaker 1: about right, because I recalled during the seventeen World Series
Speaker 1: when the cheating assholes won the World Series this podcast,
Speaker 1: we can call him what they are, assholes when they
Speaker 1: won the World Series, which they didn't actually win because
Speaker 1: they cheated. There were people demanding Vin call a game
Speaker 1: in the World Series and that never happened, and I
Speaker 1: don't think Vin wanted to do it, and so be it.
Speaker 1: I believe the offer was made by then Fox broadcaster
Speaker 1: Joe Buck. So I caught with himy mareen, and he's
Speaker 1: actually watched me grow up over the years. Royals having
Speaker 1: their problems on the road. I'm Ben Mallick and I
Speaker 1: chatted with David Vasset. We've had him on the podcast,
Speaker 1: host of Dodger Talking. Was my producer back in the
Speaker 1: nineties at the old station. Yeah, he likes to bust
Speaker 1: your balls on the air. Yeah, he bust my balls
Speaker 1: off the here too known as the Youngster, although he's
Speaker 1: middle aged and has a family, but we we still
Speaker 1: call him the youngster. And I saw Rick Monday who
Speaker 1: was at Paddle Brian dropping his but Rick Monday, who
Speaker 1: does admit Danny that he's a closeted Mallard militia guy,
Speaker 1: that he is a fan of the show. B o
Speaker 1: b uh no, No, Rick Monday po great Rick Monday. No,
Speaker 1: Pat doesn't. Pat hates my guests, but we have had
Speaker 1: him on the podcast. Uh, Pat offer every time I
Speaker 1: talked to Patty offers to take me to lunch, he
Speaker 1: offers to have me stay at a nice place in
Speaker 1: New York and all that. None of it ever happens. Not.
Speaker 1: But Rick Monday was either the man that saved the
Speaker 1: American Flag game, the man that saved the flag from
Speaker 1: burning at Dodger Stadium, but was not a Cub or
Speaker 1: was not a Dodger. Was a cup round yeah, and
Speaker 1: then soon became a Dodger. Yeah. Shortly after that became
Speaker 1: a Dodger. But he was a Cub at the time,
Speaker 1: not a Dodger and that was back Who was that
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies? Was then during the Vietnam era? Or
Speaker 1: was that before that? Was that even earlier? Had to
Speaker 1: be Vietnam? Yeah, but it was like seventies, right, and
Speaker 1: then he came to the Dodgers and he played with
Speaker 1: them until the yearly eighties. I believe, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't have his stats in front of me. Ran
Speaker 1: into Charlie Steiner. We've had him on the podcast the
Speaker 1: radio voice of the Dodgers there and also part of
Speaker 1: some of the great bloopers. If you're too young to
Speaker 1: remember when Charlie Steiner hosted Sports Center, Holy Cannoli, those
Speaker 1: are some the funniest bloopers ever on television on sports television,
Speaker 1: Charlie Steiner trying to get through the teleprompter. Have you
Speaker 1: you've seen those over the years, Daniel, he said, doing
Speaker 1: a boxing story and he starts cracking up and stopped laughing.
Speaker 1: That's it's hilarious. One of the greatest laughs. Like it
Speaker 1: reminded me of when we were little kids at church
Speaker 1: trying not to laugh during the song or the prayer,
Speaker 1: and the more you try to not laugh, the more
Speaker 1: you wind up laughing, and that was Charlie Steiner in
Speaker 1: those clips. Yeah, it was. It was hilarious. Uh, and
Speaker 1: there were a few other people. Ed Munson, although he's
Speaker 1: not supposed to talk to the media. Ed Munson has
Speaker 1: been an official scorer at Angel and Doddery games since
Speaker 1: nineteen eight. That's over forty years, Davy, this guy has
Speaker 1: been the official scorer and he's seen and done all
Speaker 1: kinds of nonsense out there, and so I was good
Speaker 1: to see him. And and then I made my my
Speaker 1: sojourn around Dodgers Stadium, walked around and was blown away
Speaker 1: by how awesome they did the reconstruction of center Field.
Speaker 1: That entrance in center Field under stadium is an amazing visual,
Speaker 1: very very smart because they know we live in the
Speaker 1: age of social media and everyone's gonna want to take
Speaker 1: a photo in front of the signs and all the
Speaker 1: other crap they've got out there, and so they loaded
Speaker 1: up signs blue Heaven and uh and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So they did a great job. Yeah, a ton of
Speaker 1: photo opportunities for everybody to post on the I g Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: So that was my feeling blue trip to Chavez Ravine.
Speaker 1: But I understand Danny you have your own, your own
Speaker 1: experience that you were there before I was there. You
Speaker 1: were there. I was there on opening night, and my
Speaker 1: experience was a lot different than yours. Okay, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we figured that the tickets would be expensive because it's
Speaker 1: opening day slash night. I tried to take care of
Speaker 1: parking ahead of time. On the Dodgers website was how
Speaker 1: much does that say now Dodgers Stadium park For those
Speaker 1: not in l A, which is most of the people
Speaker 1: listen to this, thirty bucks. Now, yeah, show up that
Speaker 1: day to pay for partum, it's thirty bucks, so you
Speaker 1: get it in advance on the website. It saves you
Speaker 1: a big whopping five dollars. That's it. That's it, that's it.
Speaker 1: Five bucks. Got the parking for did you consider one
Speaker 1: of the lots outside Dodgers and only have a cheaper
Speaker 1: lot down the hill near the fire Academy. People talk
Speaker 1: about parking outside of the stadium. The problem with that
Speaker 1: is it takes even longer to get out of there,
Speaker 1: and then you wind up walking for two miles. It's
Speaker 1: not worth it at all. All right, Now, I disagree.
Speaker 1: I disagree. I'll tell you because during the playoffs, they
Speaker 1: don't let me park in the lot, so I have
Speaker 1: to park somewhere else. And my experience is if it's
Speaker 1: a sellout crowd, like it's a big crowd of Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 1: if you parked down the hill like in Chinatown or
Speaker 1: down to the Fire Academy, spending more money, you probably
Speaker 1: no I know you want. I'll tell you why, because
Speaker 1: if you're take an uber only there. Let's say you
Speaker 1: get an uber near the the Gold Line station in Chinatown,
Speaker 1: down the hill and you take it up. What it
Speaker 1: is gonna cost maybe ten bucks, maybe twelve bucks maybe
Speaker 1: if you budgeted enough time to do something like that.
Speaker 1: But for convenience sake, I don't mind paying the twenty
Speaker 1: five for parking. For parking, and we got up close
Speaker 1: because we were there early enough, so that wasn't a
Speaker 1: huge deal. What piste us off, Ben is we get
Speaker 1: inside the stadium and it was like being smacked right
Speaker 1: in the face. We got to Dodger dogs and a bear.
Speaker 1: How much do you think that costs? Right off the bat? Alright?
Speaker 1: So too dodge of dogs, he said, Normally on the
Speaker 1: dodge the traditional Dodging hot dog, which who knows who
Speaker 1: makes it? Because it's not Farmer John anymore. So two
Speaker 1: hot dogs and then one beer. Now there's all kinds
Speaker 1: of different beers. They have the regular beer, they have
Speaker 1: the tall beer. I didn't do a complete inventory of
Speaker 1: how much. I know. There was like a bucket of
Speaker 1: a popcorn, which like seventeen bucks or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to that. Okay, all right, because that
Speaker 1: was I couldn't believe it's popcorn. It's kernels in some oil.
Speaker 1: And I mean that's seven uh so okay, I'm gonna go,
Speaker 1: what do you think the dogs are eight bucks each?
Speaker 1: So that's I think they're eight bucks now, so sixteen
Speaker 1: bucks and then the beer twelve maybe? So what are
Speaker 1: we up to? Twenty? Is that twenty eight? And I
Speaker 1: at eight thirty eight, I was off by ten. I
Speaker 1: thought I was going high. No, So right off the
Speaker 1: bat we were like, okay, a little bit of inflation
Speaker 1: here going on. We'll make it through the night. Though
Speaker 1: you haven't even gotten your seats, and you're you're twenty
Speaker 1: five for the parking, you're out thirty eight for the
Speaker 1: food and the beer. The hot thought, that's just the starter,
Speaker 1: that's the appetizer, right, and you haven't even figured in
Speaker 1: the tickets yet. We had four tickets, all right, hold
Speaker 1: on the met Ben's got his calculator now, and we've
Speaker 1: got thirty eight plus twenty five the tickets. Four tickets. Oh, no, reserve,
Speaker 1: so we had to take the elevator up to the
Speaker 1: seventh Okay, alright, so reserve level of Dodger Stadium. So
Speaker 1: but it was opening night. We got the tickets from
Speaker 1: Dodgers dot com. Okay, so you paid full price. You
Speaker 1: didn't pay a discount rate. You paid the full price
Speaker 1: and uh per ticket one hundred bucks. You're low, um low?
Speaker 1: Oh no, we shuck again. What are we looking at here?
Speaker 1: Oh boy? So the tickets were one seventy each. Whoa
Speaker 1: wait a minute, hold wait, one seventy each times four,
Speaker 1: So that's six at eighty bucks just on four tickets,
Speaker 1: six eight plus the sixty three. So now you sat
Speaker 1: down at your seats, you've paid for parking, you have
Speaker 1: two hot dogs and a beer, but you have four people,
Speaker 1: so that's not gonna feed four people. So that's you're
Speaker 1: out seven hundred and forty three dollars. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: just a snack right before we found our seats. Now
Speaker 1: me and my girl's daughter were eating our Dodger dogs
Speaker 1: and my girls drinking her beer because she paid for that.
Speaker 1: So she's probably trying to wash that memory away that
Speaker 1: and she made a mistake. And I blame her son
Speaker 1: for this because her son was out there trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, bother the players for baseballs, uh not the
Speaker 1: kind of balls I like. He finally shows up to
Speaker 1: the seats, but now he's telling his mom, well, I
Speaker 1: want to eat. At this point, her daughter can eat again,
Speaker 1: even you know, what's a Dodger dog gonna do for
Speaker 1: a growing kid, right, yeah, exactly. And it's not a
Speaker 1: thick dog. It's a skinny dog, right right. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly what she told her mom. You know, that's one
Speaker 1: of my complaints. It's not a big dog, it's a
Speaker 1: small it's a skinny dog. It's a petite dog. So
Speaker 1: she gets out of her seat and goes to one
Speaker 1: of the concession stands. Now, I thought she had a
Speaker 1: little bit more time to work with what I didn't
Speaker 1: realize what she was gonna stand in a line that
Speaker 1: was gonna take a half hour though. Now she's missing
Speaker 1: the player introductions and the fireworks going off, which is
Speaker 1: the whole point of opening Day. That's what you get.
Speaker 1: We you don't normally get that, and in the game,
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, so that's why you're there. You paid
Speaker 1: the premium for the opening day experience. I've seen her
Speaker 1: piste off a few times. Then. I wish I could
Speaker 1: have done something, anything to relieve the stress and put
Speaker 1: a smile on her face. There was nothing I could do, though.
Speaker 1: She got back. Not only was she mad because of
Speaker 1: everything she missed being in that line, but she ordered
Speaker 1: to to plates and two cokes. Okay, so that sounds expensive.
Speaker 1: Taketo plates sounds expensive. Yeah, there were cassadillas underneath the
Speaker 1: taketo's okay, two of these, two of these plates and
Speaker 1: two cokes over under game? Alright, so I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: the plates are at least fifteen each, but I'm going
Speaker 1: low on that. And what else was it? And two cokes?
Speaker 1: Ok oh? Boy, coke should be like three bucks, but
Speaker 1: they're probably uh eight bucks. I'm gonna go uh, I'll
Speaker 1: say it's gonna blow your mind. Ben, eighty five freaking dollars.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, hold on, two Taketo plates and two
Speaker 1: cokes is eighty cokes are ten bucks? Hold on sect.
Speaker 1: So let's do the math. So seven forty three plus
Speaker 1: eighty three, we'll round up eighty five. We're now at
Speaker 1: eight hundred and twenty eight dollars for two Taketo plates,
Speaker 1: a couple of Dodger dogs, be tickets and four tickets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and parking. So now you know, at least she got
Speaker 1: to see the first pitch, the first st at bat.
Speaker 1: But she was pissed. I get it. I understand watched
Speaker 1: the first couple of innings. Whether she's not talking to me,
Speaker 1: she's talking to God. I said, um, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, damn it, man, why did her kids take
Speaker 1: her to get food at that point of the game, Like,
Speaker 1: you don't get up at that time. It's a rookie.
Speaker 1: It's a rookie mistake. Danny. You gotta if you gotta,
Speaker 1: you know, they haven't been there before. The kids, they'll learn,
Speaker 1: they'll become veterans. You gotta wait till the game starts.
Speaker 1: You gotta pace yourself. You gotta eat a big meal
Speaker 1: before you go to the game, so you don't spend
Speaker 1: eighty bucks on on food at the concession state. Seriously,
Speaker 1: let me go get her a beer. That old calmer down.
Speaker 1: That'll make her feel a little more festive. Here, it'll
Speaker 1: be your second one of the night. That's usually what
Speaker 1: she will have at a game, two drinks. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: let me go get her her second drink. So I
Speaker 1: get out of my seat in the third inning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it took me until the top of the six to
Speaker 1: get back. Not only was this line just insanity. I
Speaker 1: brought the beer and sunflower seeds up to the guy.
Speaker 1: He said, your total is thirty two dollars, one beer,
Speaker 1: one bag of sunflower seeds. Was this the sunflower seed
Speaker 1: bag the size of potato sack or was it? So
Speaker 1: now another thirty two dollars, you're out. You add to
Speaker 1: the totally push you in the three too. I got
Speaker 1: the calculator going here, all right, So now you're up
Speaker 1: to eight hundred sixty, eight hundred and sixty dollars. I
Speaker 1: get back to the seat. She smiles when I hand
Speaker 1: her her sour beer made in San Diego. It's taking
Speaker 1: the jo off of things a little bit. But now
Speaker 1: later into the game, her daughter is like, I want
Speaker 1: dipping dots because the stupid guy keeps coming up and
Speaker 1: down the rows with the dipping dots, So we don't
Speaker 1: know what this guy is charging, but he slides her card.
Speaker 1: She orders one last thing because she wanted the holder
Speaker 1: that it came in, and that's the tub of popcorn
Speaker 1: you mentioned. Oh no, yes, And on our credit card
Speaker 1: statement the next day that said sixteen dollars and forty
Speaker 1: six cents. Alright, so well round up to seventeen. Don't
Speaker 1: let me had that. It's like your seventeen. So now
Speaker 1: we're eight hundred and eighty nine dollars. So when I
Speaker 1: said to start to show that it was a long week,
Speaker 1: it's because we saw a lawyer and we declared bankruptcy.
Speaker 1: Eight could you you could have how much is Disneylan?
Speaker 1: Could you have gone to Disneyland for that much? Or
Speaker 1: and amuse me, we could have in the And it's
Speaker 1: funny you bring up Disneyland, because the irony is Dodger
Speaker 1: Stadium was modeled after Disneyland when they were planning it
Speaker 1: and building it. That's why a lot of those old
Speaker 1: school Dodger signs look kind of Disneyland style. That's why
Speaker 1: they wanted that southern Cali Disneyland vibe. Well they got
Speaker 1: the Disneyland prices. Now, yeah, it's bad. And I love
Speaker 1: the Dodgers to death, you know that, I bleed blue
Speaker 1: and I'll continue to give them my money. But there's
Speaker 1: gotta be some sort of family night, family specials. There's
Speaker 1: got to be a deal where you could take a
Speaker 1: family of four for less than nine hundred dollars. Wow,
Speaker 1: that is insanity. I would never go to the If
Speaker 1: I spend nine hundred bucks in the game, I'm never
Speaker 1: going again. And I love the Dodgers and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: but that is crazy, especially growing up dated. He were
Speaker 1: around the same age that the O'Malley family when they
Speaker 1: owned the team, you know, million years ago, back in
Speaker 1: my day. But they would always brag about being a
Speaker 1: great deal and wonderful situation. They wore that as a
Speaker 1: badge of honor that it was. It was a family situation.
Speaker 1: It was it was very cost effective to go to
Speaker 1: those games for years. But they know they have a
Speaker 1: good team. It seems like there's no limit. No matter
Speaker 1: what they charge, people are still paying. I remember when
Speaker 1: I took a business class back in school. Isn't there
Speaker 1: a point where it suddenly becomes too expensive and people
Speaker 1: can't afford it? They haven't reached that point yet, but
Speaker 1: they don't. They have to be close, you would think, right.
Speaker 1: As far as the actual ticket prices go, I know
Speaker 1: they adjust the tickets based on who the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: playing against. So if you want to say, as you
Speaker 1: want to see the Dodgors play teams, you can go
Speaker 1: for a reasonable amount of money. Right so at least
Speaker 1: those seats will be cheaper, so that fluctuates. But what
Speaker 1: doesn't change are those food and drink prices and all
Speaker 1: across the boarding life. Right now, we are getting screwed
Speaker 1: with no vasoline on gat selene and food right now.
Speaker 1: So for that to carry over into the stadium, it's
Speaker 1: a bummer. Because I love going to Dodgers Stadium, but
Speaker 1: right now, unless we go on a date night and
Speaker 1: we bring our own food in a clear bag and
Speaker 1: do all the tricks, I don't see how anybody could
Speaker 1: really afford to go do that more than once or
Speaker 1: twice a year. Yeah, and I know it's not just
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. This is like Boston. I've been a Red
Speaker 1: Sox games and Finway Park is it's always been insane.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what it's like at Finnway now with
Speaker 1: the price increases and all that. That's that's gone on.
Speaker 1: And I know in New York it's it's craziness as well. Well. Listen,
Speaker 1: some some cities no one's going, like in Oakland, no
Speaker 1: one know what's going to those games. Yeah, they had
Speaker 1: a game where they were lucky to break four thousand
Speaker 1: in attendance, and then they moved to time based on
Speaker 1: whether a couple of days ago, and there were there
Speaker 1: were predictions that they would barely break a thousand. I
Speaker 1: do there's something about the A's having no fans that
Speaker 1: go to these games now. It reminds me of when
Speaker 1: I covered the Clippers at the sports Arena in the
Speaker 1: nineties and sometimes we would be bored because they'd be
Speaker 1: getting boat raced, and we would play a game where
Speaker 1: we would count the fans at the sports arena, and
Speaker 1: because there were so few people you could do it.
Speaker 1: You could actually count the people in the arena. And
Speaker 1: I'd take one side, a friend of mine another reporter
Speaker 1: would take another side, and we would count the people.
Speaker 1: And as I pointed out before, back back then, there
Speaker 1: would be more people that would show up in the
Speaker 1: second half. Because the Donald Sterling Clippers in the nineties,
Speaker 1: they would just open up the doors at halftime so
Speaker 1: people that didn't have tickets could come in. A lot
Speaker 1: of the homeless people to get out of the cool
Speaker 1: night air would come into the sports arena to watch
Speaker 1: the second half, and it made for some interesting times.
Speaker 1: I got a couple of things real quick. We had
Speaker 1: do the dip. So after the dodging game, I, of
Speaker 1: course I I did not spend nine dollars, but I
Speaker 1: was by myself. My wife was out with her her friends,
Speaker 1: so I was out schmoozing, meeting, playing grab bass with
Speaker 1: the media, and so I wanted some some postgame food.
Speaker 1: Now I ran into West of the four oh five,
Speaker 1: who used to co host this podcast. He was out there,
Speaker 1: and so I scooted over to Culver City. I wanted
Speaker 1: some gringo tacos, so I went to Tito's Tacos and
Speaker 1: no dice, that place was pad locked. They lock up
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock, now my favorite taco place. Uh and
Speaker 1: they used to be open to eleven o'clock or midnight
Speaker 1: on the weekends, but after COVID they just everything shuts
Speaker 1: down earlier. So I pivoted to Plan B and I
Speaker 1: went across the parking lot and I did the do
Speaker 1: the dip. Have you ever been to Johnny's Pastrami? That's
Speaker 1: pretty good, Lo, cases an old old place, been around
Speaker 1: for a long time, I don't know, sixties seventy or
Speaker 1: something like that. And for the second consecutive weekend, I
Speaker 1: was schmoozing with someone eating pastrami by fire and uh,
Speaker 1: and I paid. I want you to know that that pompous,
Speaker 1: arrogant s O b Mr. West of the four or five,
Speaker 1: I'm no one. I am the one that paid for that.
Speaker 1: For that particularly and uh and a quick butter boner's story.
Speaker 1: So last weekend around going to the baseball game, I
Speaker 1: was back in the kitchen Danny as Benny the Baker,
Speaker 1: and I decided to make some chocolate chip cookies. And
Speaker 1: I've made this recipe before, but this time I made
Speaker 1: a fatal mistake. I attempted to crank up the degree
Speaker 1: of difficulty. I made these cookies while I was half asleep.
Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah, yeah yeah. So in my haste to
Speaker 1: get the cookie dough made, I pulled out the Kirkland
Speaker 1: brand butter and I ended up with a colossal butter boner.
Speaker 1: I doubled. Actually, no, I think I put four times
Speaker 1: the amount of butter in this recipe and it was
Speaker 1: supposed to be in there, and uh yeah, it turns
Speaker 1: out when you put too much butter in the recipe,
Speaker 1: if you don't follow the recipe properly, you end up
Speaker 1: getting these weird, paper thin cookies where they're all oily.
Speaker 1: And I was pissed. So then I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna remake the batch of cookies. But and they came
Speaker 1: out all right, but they were still not restaurant quality.
Speaker 1: So I've decided that this weekend, maybe even today, around
Speaker 1: the podcast stuff, I will remake a different recipe. I
Speaker 1: must perfect the chocolate chip cookie. It has to happen.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna make another batch, a third batch of
Speaker 1: of cookies. Here. Last weekend, you were listing off all
Speaker 1: the cookies that you've made so far. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think you mentioned peanut butter cookies. No, I've not made
Speaker 1: peanut butter cookies yet. I'm not opposed to the peanut
Speaker 1: butter cookie, but I'm a look anto, I made him
Speaker 1: steak with the chocolate chip. The chocolate chip is a
Speaker 1: classic cookie. You can't f up the chocolate chip. That's
Speaker 1: a staple cookie. Everyone loves the chocolate chip Nobody I
Speaker 1: know doesn't like chocolate chip cookies. And I messed up
Speaker 1: the chocolate chip cookie. So that's a bad job by me.
Speaker 1: All right, real quick, we're sure on top of the backscratcher.
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Speaker 1: headline te Dawn, and the meat of the review says
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Speaker 1: d G. So there's a fan thank you, and Buddy
Speaker 1: Dog Earth Buddy Dog rights and says headline the best. Well,
Speaker 1: you know how I feel about the word best Danny.
Speaker 1: That means as good as anyway the best. I absolutely
Speaker 1: enjoy each episode. The different topics and formats make the
Speaker 1: show hey joy to listen to each weekend. I look
Speaker 1: forward to each and every episode. Well, thank you, Buddy Dog,
Speaker 1: Thanks buddy. He had a lot of momentum in that review.
Speaker 1: He's just trying to hit my buttons here. We gotta
Speaker 1: get out of here. We get another podcast on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Any of Promote Danny, any kind of gig, any appearances,
Speaker 1: any comedy acts you've got coming up, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: doing an open mic night, anything at all, Go ahead
Speaker 1: right now, Promote, Promote, Promote. I will be telling Zingers
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Speaker 1: See you Aloha, Bye bye later skater, gotta murder, Gotta
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