WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: The Box Ben Was Raised In 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.480 Kabooms. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.160 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.440 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.880 rich pill poppers in the penthouse the Clearinghouse of Hot 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.599 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:32.080 Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, and 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:37.159 a happy Saturday to you back in the podcast do 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:42.200 Joe for another addition of the Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:47.879 Maller in Danny g Radio for all your podcast needs. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:54.000 Every single day there's some kind of audio content that 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.640 we provide you well, very little of that, very little 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:00.560 of that. But Danny here we are again on a 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:07.840 wonderful Saturday. This is the next to last Saturday in 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:12.280 the month of April, and a year is flying by 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:20.840 yet again, another year zooming past us here Danny. Was 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.039 definitely a long work week, so it feels nice to 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:26.759 get to the weekend right now. And I gotta thank 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.120 everybody for the downloads, Ben, because we had some amazing 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.640 numbers last weekend. Yes, thank you for that. That the 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:38.200 inspiration to continue talking and I want you to know 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:42.120 that I only talk to you the podcast listener and 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.360 when I'm not doing the podcast, and my wife can 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.600 attest I very rarely even talked to her, Danny. I 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.680 allow her to do all the talking, and I I 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:57.280 point out, I'm saving my voice. I believe in silence. 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:03.200 You crickets. All we got on the weekends. I have 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:07.040 nothing left to say other than the podcast and then 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.960 that's it, and so it works out pretty well that way. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.560 I do have a a bit of a trip coming up, 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.919 so I will have some silence, although I guess someone 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.200 have to talk to my relative, so I don't think 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.440 I'll be able to I wish I could, but I 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.520 think I have to talk to them, So I'll be 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.920 doing a different kind of show. They call it the 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.760 Selene Dion. You need that voice rest two diva move, 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.080 but you can pull it as a way to not 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:38.240 have to talk to certain people. Yeah. It's like Michael Kay, 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:43.280 the Yankee broadcaster. He had a vocal cord injury, wow, 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:49.080 and he literally could not talk for a while. So 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:50.560 I could claim that I could claim I have a 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.839 vocal cord injury. Although my problem, Danny, is even when 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.840 I've had vocal cord injuries. I've still worked. I've had 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:03.840 laryngitis multiple times over the years, and I've I've always worked. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.680 And my my idea behind that, the reason I've always 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.280 worked is because I've always thought, well, there's there's a 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.680 big boss that's listening. I'm sure the big boss if 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.520 I sound really bad, you know, the the phone, the 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:21.760 phone will start ringing there and he'll say hey, yeah, 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:23.640 and then they'll say hey, mall or get off the 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:27.280 air and all that, and then it's never happened. I've 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.360 never I've had laryngitis multiple times in the years I've 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.120 done radio. I've never had a program actor at any 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.200 station I've ever worked at called me up and say, Ben, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.080 you probably shouldn't be on the air right now. How 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:42.839 is that possible, Daddy. There were a few times when 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.280 I did the live show with you, not only did 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.640 you barely have a voice left, but we could smell 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:53.840 you from down the hall. There comes the garlic. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.360 well yeah, the garlic therapy, which the time tested from 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:01.120 the old Country, the garlic therapy. One time I was 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.680 on the air and our our Sherman Oaks studios and 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:07.480 it was during a commercial break, and I was feeling 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.560 kind of sick, and I went in the in the 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.560 hallway there and I puked, and then I came back 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:16.719 and did another segment of Radio So Yeah, and it 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.440 was like, you're Michael Jordan's flu game. I haven't puked 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:24.760 very often. There's only a food poisoning. That's usually what 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.479 gets me from my most people. But I've been pretty 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:31.320 good at holding my my puke anyway, On that positive 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:37.280 uplifting note, the hell is going on here? What is 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.400 going on? Well, let's take for that puke combo with 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.599 some good drops right here. Yes, we're gonna take a 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:48.680 ride on the vomit comment and bare now not the 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.960 kind of balls I like. You pay me five thousand dollars, 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:57.400 I'll endorse a game magazine. I have noticed that the 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.560 bombit comment Danny gets a lot of play during the 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.800 playoff us. I use vomit comment much more during the 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.960 NBA playoffs, the NFL playoffs, the baseball playoffs, then during 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.599 the regular season. But on the menu today for your 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.960 listening pleasure, you'll be the judge of that. We have 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:19.920 feeling blue over under do the dip, the butter boner 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.120 and backscratchers. So there's a lot of content to get 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.400 to any very limited amount of time, a finite amount 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.200 of time, so without further ado, and we don't need 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.520 to bleep anything unless we do so. Feeling moves. So 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:36.600 this past weekend I made it back out the Dodgers 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:41.120 state of my first trip on the first Dodger homestand 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:47.440 it was last weekend to see the Cincinnati Reds the 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.400 Cincinnati Bros, if you will. And I did put out 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:55.000 a message at the very last minute on social media 0:05:55.320 --> 0:06:01.120 and I said, attention p Once on Twitter, Surprise, motherfucker, 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.800 guess who's in the ballpark? And I actually did running. 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:06.640 I was walking around Dodger Stam. I ran into a 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:10.560 few fans of the show. So that was encouraging, Danny, 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:15.000 not discouraging considering that we've been on in l A. 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:16.640 I've been on another for a long time, but been 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.279 on the Dodger Station, the Overnight Show for many many years. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:25.960 And Dodger Stadium celebrating what sixty years there, big deal, 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.919 sixty years. It looked great. I walked all around the 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.080 ballpark and walked out to center field. They had renovated 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:35.159 Dodger Stadium and it's completely done. They're ready for the 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.080 All Star Game, so that was cool. I didn't notice 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.320 they renovated the press box. That is not done. I 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.080 know you're very concerned about that. They have updated the 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:48.159 press box, which is very odd because I've spent a 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.880 lot of my life in there, and it's weird. They 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.960 expanded the back area of the press box, in the 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.960 back of the dining room. They added a new women's bathroom, 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.960 which is very important me and where do white women at? 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:06.200 And this is a big one, Danny. They added an 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:11.480 all gender bathroom in the press box at Dodger Stadium. 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.239 It's so to do that. I always said for years 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.200 when I was coming the Dodging So the one thing 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.160 that's missing from this press box in all gender bathrooms. 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.720 And now they've done it. Now they've solved that problem. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.520 So we're good to go on that. Uh and uh 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.600 and laile blah. Now, meanwhile, I was on a wild 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:35.280 goose chase to find an item is very important to me. Uh, 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:40.560 the popcorn machine, Danny. Now, it was not where it 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.000 normally has been. They they just as I mentioned, they've 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.960 done some work there in the press box and spoiler alert. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:51.040 Spoiler alert, much to my dismay, Danny. I looked in 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:56.800 every nook and cranny of that press box and a 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:04.240 major setback here. Yeah, no more, no more popcorn machine. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:09.600 Well the popcorn machine. It's very eighties and nineties. I 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.040 feel like maybe they're trying to push into the future, 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:15.160 even though the eighties was now what forty years ago. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.200 I know what you think, it's like twenty years ago, 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.000 but yeuh no. But for years that had been my 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.440 go to staple, good good, bad ugly Dodger baseball didn't matter. 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.440 I always had freshly made buttered popcorn and I probably 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:34.240 gained I estimated over two hundred pounds just on popcorn alone. 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:39.960 Take that for data. Uh and abracadabric gone in a 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:44.640 jiffy the popcorn. But it wasn't the I enjoyed being 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.079 out there and I got to cut up with it. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.160 I catch up rather but not to kind of catch 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:50.880 up on the table, but I got to chat with 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.400 a bunch of people I hadn't seen a long time, 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:56.560 so that was always cool. And I gotta tell you, though, 0:08:56.600 --> 0:09:02.079 it's weird being there because I have memories of great 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.280 nights at Dodger Stadium and people I hung out with 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.280 good friends of mine. Many of them are not dead 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.920 or they're not working in the radio in radio business anymore, 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:16.640 and everything's turned over like as you might imagine. I've 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.280 been doing this for a while. So there's a whole 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:22.480 new generation of writers and broadcasters and not a lot 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.960 of friendly faces. So I had I had to search. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.640 I had to go around Danny and try to find 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:31.280 friendly faces. I found a few. So I you want 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:32.960 the Mallard roll call, and can give you the Mallar 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.160 rule call here, all right? So these are the people 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.520 I actually know that's still cover the Dodgers. Now I 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:45.680 miss some people here. But Himie Harin Hall of Fame, 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:51.160 Spanish voice of the Dodgers sixty four seasons, and I 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.360 think he's retiring this year. I believe this is the 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.959 last year calling Dodger baseball. But that's only three years 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:02.040 less than Vince Scully because maybe Ben retired. How many 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:06.160 years ago it had been retired? Was it twenty? I 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.200 think it was before that. I'll check for you, all right, 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:12.480 but he's been gone for a few years. That's Fertiliza. 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.360 And so Himie Harine, who took over as the voice 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.040 of the Dodgers when a Spanish voice when they moved 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.960 to l A. Uh and so he called games at 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.640 the Colosseum in l a. He has been at Dodger 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.280 Stadium since that place open and so I've known him 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.120 for a long time. He looks great. I couldn't believe 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:35.520 he's eighties six years old. Himie Harin. Vin retired at 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.600 the very end of the Steen season. Yeah, that sounds 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.640 about right, because I recalled during the seventeen World Series 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:46.640 when the cheating assholes won the World Series this podcast, 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.640 we can call him what they are, assholes when they 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.760 won the World Series, which they didn't actually win because 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.280 they cheated. There were people demanding Vin call a game 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:59.040 in the World Series and that never happened, and I 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.480 don't think Vin wanted to do it, and so be it. 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:05.319 I believe the offer was made by then Fox broadcaster 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.800 Joe Buck. So I caught with himy mareen, and he's 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:13.720 actually watched me grow up over the years. Royals having 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.920 their problems on the road. I'm Ben Mallick and I 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.480 chatted with David Vasset. We've had him on the podcast, 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:25.040 host of Dodger Talking. Was my producer back in the 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:29.240 nineties at the old station. Yeah, he likes to bust 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.880 your balls on the air. Yeah, he bust my balls 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.600 off the here too known as the Youngster, although he's 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.320 middle aged and has a family, but we we still 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.600 call him the youngster. And I saw Rick Monday who 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.480 was at Paddle Brian dropping his but Rick Monday, who 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:49.120 does admit Danny that he's a closeted Mallard militia guy, 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.160 that he is a fan of the show. B o 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:55.520 b uh no, No, Rick Monday po great Rick Monday. No, 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.800 Pat doesn't. Pat hates my guests, but we have had 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.840 him on the podcast. Uh, Pat offer every time I 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.080 talked to Patty offers to take me to lunch, he 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.600 offers to have me stay at a nice place in 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:10.040 New York and all that. None of it ever happens. Not. 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:12.680 But Rick Monday was either the man that saved the 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.080 American Flag game, the man that saved the flag from 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:20.839 burning at Dodger Stadium, but was not a Cub or 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.160 was not a Dodger. Was a cup round yeah, and 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.280 then soon became a Dodger. Yeah. Shortly after that became 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:27.680 a Dodger. But he was a Cub at the time, 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.600 not a Dodger and that was back Who was that 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.400 the nineteen seventies? Was then during the Vietnam era? Or 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.800 was that before that? Was that even earlier? Had to 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:43.160 be Vietnam? Yeah, but it was like seventies, right, and 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:44.800 then he came to the Dodgers and he played with 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.200 them until the yearly eighties. I believe, but I don't. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.000 I don't have his stats in front of me. Ran 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.679 into Charlie Steiner. We've had him on the podcast the 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:55.960 radio voice of the Dodgers there and also part of 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.400 some of the great bloopers. If you're too young to 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.640 remember when Charlie Steiner hosted Sports Center, Holy Cannoli, those 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.720 are some the funniest bloopers ever on television on sports television, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:10.959 Charlie Steiner trying to get through the teleprompter. Have you 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.439 you've seen those over the years, Daniel, he said, doing 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:17.160 a boxing story and he starts cracking up and stopped laughing. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.960 That's it's hilarious. One of the greatest laughs. Like it 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.480 reminded me of when we were little kids at church 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.560 trying not to laugh during the song or the prayer, 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.400 and the more you try to not laugh, the more 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.560 you wind up laughing, and that was Charlie Steiner in 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.680 those clips. Yeah, it was. It was hilarious. Uh, and 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.240 there were a few other people. Ed Munson, although he's 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.959 not supposed to talk to the media. Ed Munson has 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.679 been an official scorer at Angel and Doddery games since 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.880 nineteen eight. That's over forty years, Davy, this guy has 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:53.480 been the official scorer and he's seen and done all 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.360 kinds of nonsense out there, and so I was good 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.680 to see him. And and then I made my my 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:03.120 sojourn around Dodgers Stadium, walked around and was blown away 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.520 by how awesome they did the reconstruction of center Field. 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:12.120 That entrance in center Field under stadium is an amazing visual, 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.960 very very smart because they know we live in the 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.000 age of social media and everyone's gonna want to take 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:20.960 a photo in front of the signs and all the 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.040 other crap they've got out there, and so they loaded 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:28.680 up signs blue Heaven and uh and all that stuff. 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.680 So they did a great job. Yeah, a ton of 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:36.280 photo opportunities for everybody to post on the I g Yeah, alright, 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:41.920 So that was my feeling blue trip to Chavez Ravine. 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:48.160 But I understand Danny you have your own, your own 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.920 experience that you were there before I was there. You 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.840 were there. I was there on opening night, and my 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:59.520 experience was a lot different than yours. Okay, Um, you know, 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:03.160 we figured that the tickets would be expensive because it's 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.680 opening day slash night. I tried to take care of 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.960 parking ahead of time. On the Dodgers website was how 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.880 much does that say now Dodgers Stadium park For those 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:14.240 not in l A, which is most of the people 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.760 listen to this, thirty bucks. Now, yeah, show up that 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.240 day to pay for partum, it's thirty bucks, so you 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.480 get it in advance on the website. It saves you 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:27.080 a big whopping five dollars. That's it. That's it, that's it. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:33.160 Five bucks. Got the parking for did you consider one 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.160 of the lots outside Dodgers and only have a cheaper 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.120 lot down the hill near the fire Academy. People talk 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.400 about parking outside of the stadium. The problem with that 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.680 is it takes even longer to get out of there, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.160 and then you wind up walking for two miles. It's 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.360 not worth it at all. All right, Now, I disagree. 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.720 I disagree. I'll tell you because during the playoffs, they 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:55.840 don't let me park in the lot, so I have 0:15:55.880 --> 0:16:01.440 to park somewhere else. And my experience is if it's 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.000 a sellout crowd, like it's a big crowd of Dodger Stadium, 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.480 if you parked down the hill like in Chinatown or 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.800 down to the Fire Academy, spending more money, you probably 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.160 no I know you want. I'll tell you why, because 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.760 if you're take an uber only there. Let's say you 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:19.040 get an uber near the the Gold Line station in Chinatown, 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.600 down the hill and you take it up. What it 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:26.560 is gonna cost maybe ten bucks, maybe twelve bucks maybe 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.280 if you budgeted enough time to do something like that. 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.600 But for convenience sake, I don't mind paying the twenty 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:37.240 five for parking. For parking, and we got up close 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.160 because we were there early enough, so that wasn't a 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.880 huge deal. What piste us off, Ben is we get 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.600 inside the stadium and it was like being smacked right 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:52.040 in the face. We got to Dodger dogs and a bear. 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.840 How much do you think that costs? Right off the bat? Alright? 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:57.880 So too dodge of dogs, he said, Normally on the 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.680 dodge the traditional Dodging hot dog, which who knows who 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:02.640 makes it? Because it's not Farmer John anymore. So two 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.960 hot dogs and then one beer. Now there's all kinds 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:07.679 of different beers. They have the regular beer, they have 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.840 the tall beer. I didn't do a complete inventory of 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.040 how much. I know. There was like a bucket of 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.640 a popcorn, which like seventeen bucks or something like that. Yeah, 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.679 I'm gonna get to that. Okay, all right, because that 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.760 was I couldn't believe it's popcorn. It's kernels in some oil. 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:29.000 And I mean that's seven uh so okay, I'm gonna go, 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.240 what do you think the dogs are eight bucks each? 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.040 So that's I think they're eight bucks now, so sixteen 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:38.199 bucks and then the beer twelve maybe? So what are 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.200 we up to? Twenty? Is that twenty eight? And I 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:45.800 at eight thirty eight, I was off by ten. I 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.439 thought I was going high. No, So right off the 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.639 bat we were like, okay, a little bit of inflation 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.560 here going on. We'll make it through the night. Though 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:58.240 you haven't even gotten your seats, and you're you're twenty 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.480 five for the parking, you're out thirty eight for the 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.919 food and the beer. The hot thought, that's just the starter, 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.680 that's the appetizer, right, and you haven't even figured in 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.880 the tickets yet. We had four tickets, all right, hold 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:16.520 on the met Ben's got his calculator now, and we've 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:23.760 got thirty eight plus twenty five the tickets. Four tickets. Oh, no, reserve, 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.000 so we had to take the elevator up to the 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:30.120 seventh Okay, alright, so reserve level of Dodger Stadium. So 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.880 but it was opening night. We got the tickets from 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:36.040 Dodgers dot com. Okay, so you paid full price. You 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:37.960 didn't pay a discount rate. You paid the full price 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:44.760 and uh per ticket one hundred bucks. You're low, um low? 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.960 Oh no, we shuck again. What are we looking at here? 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:53.639 Oh boy? So the tickets were one seventy each. Whoa 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:57.960 wait a minute, hold wait, one seventy each times four, 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:02.600 So that's six at eighty bucks just on four tickets, 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:07.960 six eight plus the sixty three. So now you sat 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.080 down at your seats, you've paid for parking, you have 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.720 two hot dogs and a beer, but you have four people, 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.760 so that's not gonna feed four people. So that's you're 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:19.240 out seven hundred and forty three dollars. Yeah, that was 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:23.160 just a snack right before we found our seats. Now 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.080 me and my girl's daughter were eating our Dodger dogs 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.560 and my girls drinking her beer because she paid for that. 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:34.080 So she's probably trying to wash that memory away that 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.440 and she made a mistake. And I blame her son 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:39.960 for this because her son was out there trying to, 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.440 you know, bother the players for baseballs, uh not the 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:46.639 kind of balls I like. He finally shows up to 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.439 the seats, but now he's telling his mom, well, I 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.480 want to eat. At this point, her daughter can eat again, 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:54.560 even you know, what's a Dodger dog gonna do for 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:58.320 a growing kid, right, yeah, exactly. And it's not a 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.880 thick dog. It's a skinny dog, right right. And that's 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.320 exactly what she told her mom. You know, that's one 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.240 of my complaints. It's not a big dog, it's a 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:09.240 small it's a skinny dog. It's a petite dog. So 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:12.600 she gets out of her seat and goes to one 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:15.600 of the concession stands. Now, I thought she had a 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.080 little bit more time to work with what I didn't 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.760 realize what she was gonna stand in a line that 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:24.560 was gonna take a half hour though. Now she's missing 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:28.080 the player introductions and the fireworks going off, which is 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:29.879 the whole point of opening Day. That's what you get. 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.040 We you don't normally get that, and in the game, 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:34.480 in the playoffs, so that's why you're there. You paid 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:37.600 the premium for the opening day experience. I've seen her 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:41.480 piste off a few times. Then. I wish I could 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:48.040 have done something, anything to relieve the stress and put 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:51.240 a smile on her face. There was nothing I could do, though. 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:55.159 She got back. Not only was she mad because of 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:59.159 everything she missed being in that line, but she ordered 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:05.200 to to plates and two cokes. Okay, so that sounds expensive. 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:09.159 Taketo plates sounds expensive. Yeah, there were cassadillas underneath the 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:13.239 taketo's okay, two of these, two of these plates and 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:19.200 two cokes over under game? Alright, so I'm gonna say 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:21.520 the plates are at least fifteen each, but I'm going 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:25.480 low on that. And what else was it? And two cokes? 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:29.359 Ok oh? Boy, coke should be like three bucks, but 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:35.840 they're probably uh eight bucks. I'm gonna go uh, I'll 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:43.879 say it's gonna blow your mind. Ben, eighty five freaking dollars. 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:48.400 Wait wait, wait, hold on, two Taketo plates and two 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:53.640 cokes is eighty cokes are ten bucks? Hold on sect. 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:55.760 So let's do the math. So seven forty three plus 0:21:55.880 --> 0:22:01.479 eighty three, we'll round up eighty five. We're now at 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:05.120 eight hundred and twenty eight dollars for two Taketo plates, 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:10.200 a couple of Dodger dogs, be tickets and four tickets. Yeah, 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:16.280 and parking. So now you know, at least she got 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:18.680 to see the first pitch, the first st at bat. 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:22.439 But she was pissed. I get it. I understand watched 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:24.919 the first couple of innings. Whether she's not talking to me, 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:30.360 she's talking to God. I said, um, and I'm like, 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:32.840 you know, damn it, man, why did her kids take 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:35.280 her to get food at that point of the game, Like, 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:38.639 you don't get up at that time. It's a rookie. 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:41.400 It's a rookie mistake. Danny. You gotta if you gotta, 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:43.760 you know, they haven't been there before. The kids, they'll learn, 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:46.280 they'll become veterans. You gotta wait till the game starts. 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:48.119 You gotta pace yourself. You gotta eat a big meal 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:49.680 before you go to the game, so you don't spend 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:52.960 eighty bucks on on food at the concession state. Seriously, 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.440 let me go get her a beer. That old calmer down. 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:59.880 That'll make her feel a little more festive. Here, it'll 0:22:59.880 --> 0:23:01.800 be your second one of the night. That's usually what 0:23:01.920 --> 0:23:05.199 she will have at a game, two drinks. So I'm like, 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:07.600 let me go get her her second drink. So I 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:10.800 get out of my seat in the third inning. Yeah, 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:13.600 it took me until the top of the six to 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:19.000 get back. Not only was this line just insanity. I 0:23:19.119 --> 0:23:23.119 brought the beer and sunflower seeds up to the guy. 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:28.080 He said, your total is thirty two dollars, one beer, 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:32.800 one bag of sunflower seeds. Was this the sunflower seed 0:23:32.840 --> 0:23:36.520 bag the size of potato sack or was it? So 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:41.920 now another thirty two dollars, you're out. You add to 0:23:41.960 --> 0:23:46.280 the totally push you in the three too. I got 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:49.080 the calculator going here, all right, So now you're up 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:52.800 to eight hundred sixty, eight hundred and sixty dollars. I 0:23:52.840 --> 0:23:56.040 get back to the seat. She smiles when I hand 0:23:56.080 --> 0:23:59.680 her her sour beer made in San Diego. It's taking 0:23:59.720 --> 0:24:02.320 the jo off of things a little bit. But now 0:24:02.480 --> 0:24:05.400