1 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: If you thought more hours a day dred minutes a 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 4 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 5 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse to clearing house of 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:24,240 Speaker 1: hot takes. Break Free for Something Special Hour with Ben 7 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: Maller starts right now that it does in the air Everywhere. 8 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: Another podcast Pellosa kind of a day here as we 9 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: are back the weekend kicking off because four hours a 10 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: night are not enough. We do this eight days a week. 11 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: We thank you for finding the podcast, We're supporting the podcast, 12 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 1: for downloading the podcast, telling friends about the podcast, and 13 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: we we do appreciate it. And joined by the guy 14 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: West of the four oh five. He's on Gascon Time, 15 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: right over David Gascon and making his way in to 16 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,960 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm on I'm on two time zones, three 17 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 1: time zones Pacific, Eastern and Central European time mclock A 18 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 1: little like the brag about that you know what what 19 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: you operate with? Darcy? What time do you? Guys? Usually 20 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: go on Darcy down under Darcy walder Grave, which is 21 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 1: on Saturday, mornings at eight in the morning eight your 22 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: time in New Zealand time, but it's like eight thirty 23 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: or something in the morning. But it's what's their time 24 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 1: difference with us? Well, I do it at one thirty 25 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: California time Pacific like nineteen is it nineteen hours or something? 26 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: Not good weekend. Yeah, it's a different world. I mean 27 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: they're ahead of every they are the beginning. What's the 28 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: last time zone? I know they're the New Zealand and 29 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: Australia like the first time zones where the clock turns 30 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: over where it would it be? Guam? Is that the 31 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: end of it? I don't know. I know that's a 32 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: good question. What is the last times on the lot? 33 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: That brings up the rear? Someone's got to be last 34 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: if someone who celebrates New Year's last I don't know. 35 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,399 Speaker 1: I'll look it up, all right, just google it. That's 36 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: not what this is about, because this is about hanging 37 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: out and chatting. We don't have guests. We have people 38 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 1: that we like to talk to. And I am excited. 39 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,639 Speaker 1: This is a guy I go way back with, uh, 40 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: someone that when I was a radio stringer, a radio 41 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: reporter and covering games, I spent many a night, hanging 42 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,679 Speaker 1: out with this guy at games, after games, going to 43 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: sports bars, eating cheeseburgers in the middle of the night, 44 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: having a grand old time. And someone that I encouraged 45 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 1: to work at Fox Sports Radio, someone I wanted to 46 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: get in because because the Fox Sports Radio, which bother 47 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 1: Why does that bother you? Because you encouraged him to 48 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 1: work here, and you encourage me to go work in China? Like, 49 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: what kind of an asshole does that? I? I encourage 50 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:14,839 Speaker 1: you to work in China, West Virginia Baker's Field. Yes, 51 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 1: I'm looking out for you. Yeah, it's all about the story. 52 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: You've got great stories. Now, Guessica, You've got great stories. 53 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 1: Could you imagine me in China right now? I'll be wonderful. Yeah, 54 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: I'd be telling. I'd be fucking. I'd been in blowhard 55 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: right now. Hunt your anniversary, you would be big in China. 56 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: You would be very big in China. Anyway, let's get 57 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 1: into it. Steve Sager a man of mystery, the great 58 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: Steve Disager, longtime radio personality in southern California, but on 59 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: the nationale air waves for many, many years. But speaking 60 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: of that, Steve, my memory is a bit hazy at 61 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: this point. I do remember Fox Sports Radio before Steve 62 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: Disager worked if Fox Sports Radio. But you have been 63 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: a staple of the fs R radio family for how 64 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: many years? How long has it been. Racing may not 65 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: be that good at maths, it's certainly over a decade. 66 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: It's closing in on fifteen I believe. Also at our 67 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: anchor studio, I believe Dead Carson was hired two weeks 68 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: before I was. So literally there's not been to my knowledge, 69 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: there's not been a full time opening in fifteen years 70 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 1: in the anchor studio because no one leaves. It's like you. 71 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: I remember actually you brought me into the studios. Of 72 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: course people probably know Fox Sports Radio headquartered in l A. 73 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: And that was Deb's first night actually that she was working. 74 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: And you said, oh, listen to this guy that's on 75 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 1: the phone. He's reporting from college football, Dan Buyer. He's 76 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: got the greatest job. He just gets to go to 77 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: a different college football game every Saturday. That's all he 78 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: does all season. And Dan is now, of course the 79 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: head anchor. He has the titled manager of Fox Sports Radio. 80 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: So yeah, it's been a while. Yeah, And I thank you, 81 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: by the way, because I remember when you and I 82 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: would sit in press boxes for years that you used 83 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: to live in Orange County as well, and when you 84 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: went up to Fox, you would say more than once 85 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 1: you know you ought to work there, and eventually guess 86 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: what now now I work there. Well, No, listen, I 87 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,359 Speaker 1: I as you know to say, I think very little 88 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: of many people in radio, but you're good and I 89 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: like good people. And I thought you got We've got 90 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: to get you in there, and I'm glad it didn't 91 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: take long. It didn't take long to get you in there. 92 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: But I remember deb Carson's first night. She came in 93 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: all dressed up, and I like it with TV. Yeah, 94 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: I like, Dad, we're doing an overnight weekend radio show. 95 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: Are you doing? I mean, no one's here, and the 96 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: trust me. If management comes in, it's only because the 97 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 1: radio stations on fire. So that's the only where they're 98 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: coming in, yea, or or the only other time. Literally, 99 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: the only other time I've seen managed it in there 100 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: on the weekends was when Andy Roddick and his hot 101 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: wife were both in there on some show. I'm not 102 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: kidding you. That's the only time I've seen management there 103 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: on a Saturday. Well, no, I mean, listen, if there 104 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 1: is if you look at the setup, there's an ex 105 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: athlete in there, like a powerful person. I remember when 106 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,599 Speaker 1: the late Rush Limbaugh would come in during the week 107 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: and it was like there were people screwing around trying 108 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: to make sure everything was clean and you know, it 109 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: was putting everything in the proper place, and all the 110 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: executives were there. When when Rush would come walking into 111 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: his studio, which was the studio was just a crown 112 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 1: across the hall around the corner there what he would 113 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 1: do when he was in l A and uh. But 114 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: but other than that, I mean, I would you know 115 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 1: I'm not there during the daytime during the week, which 116 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: I guess you are, but I don't see I don't 117 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:51,679 Speaker 1: see anybody. I love that our offices are actually separate 118 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: from the studio. You have to go outside across the 119 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,839 Speaker 1: plaza and go upstairs to where management is. So it's 120 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: very rare that management comes in. That is a great 121 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 1: thing for the workers. Just for the record, if something happens, 122 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: you know, they can email you or let you know, 123 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: but usually you don't see them. And as far as 124 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: the worst story that I can remember, as far as 125 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: people being asked to show up because somebody famous or 126 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: somebody would pull stephen A. Smith. Do you remember that 127 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: he was on our network briefly. Oh. Yes, he did 128 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: the early morning show, and right before he was going 129 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: to start that, they asked the board operator, Hey, can 130 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: you come in and maybe you know a chance just 131 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: say hello and something like that. And so it's a 132 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 1: you know, what's four in the morning or something like that, 133 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: and it didn't mean anything, and the show was off 134 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: pretty soon after that. It was just workers are being 135 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: asked to coddle same too often for my taste. Yeah, no, 136 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: I remember stephen A. It's really amazing. I mean, listen, 137 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: you guys. The guy's a huge star at ESPN. But 138 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: I remember when he started. He actually did a weekend 139 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 1: show in the early days of Fox Sports Read. He 140 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: was a columnist in Philadelphia before he went to ESPN, 141 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: and he did a weekend talks with John Ireland. Yeah, 142 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: the Lakers annouswer for many years. So they did a 143 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: show together on Saturday mornings, and uh, you know stephen A. 144 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 1: You know, he would show up and he came he 145 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: lived on the East coast, but he'd come into l 146 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: A and he'd hang out, you know. Part of the year. 147 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: He did the show from l A and I remember 148 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: I was doing the you know, I was there on 149 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: the weekend, so I ran into him a few times. 150 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: And I'll never get one time John was late coming 151 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: back from a Laker roacher. At that time, he was 152 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: the sideline reporter for the Lakers, so he was traveling 153 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: with the team, but he was late getting back and 154 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: Stephen A had to do the show by himself, and 155 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: he was at that time he hadn't had a lot 156 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: of experience working by himself. And you know, Steve, it 157 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: is a much different animal when you do a talk 158 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: radio show by yourself than when you've got that well no, 159 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: I mean you've done some talk as well and the past, 160 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 1: but but it's it's like it's a totally the preparation, 161 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: the amount of laser like focus, and Stephen was not 162 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: quite prepared for that at that time. And uh, you know, 163 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 1: I think it was one of the few people that 164 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 1: was listening. But it was very awkward. It was very awkward, 165 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: but obviously didn't hold him back. And then and then 166 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 1: he got let go by ESPN and he came back 167 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: and you're right, and they gave him the morning show 168 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: at Fox, which means by the way it's an l 169 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:18,959 Speaker 1: A studio. Three am Pacific I think is when it started, 170 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 1: so it would be morning drive on the East. And 171 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: then the reason why it didn't last, I am told, 172 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: is because then he couldn't be a games or what 173 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: have you in the evening because he had to wake 174 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: up so early. First thought, maybe maybe we didn't know this. Yeah, yeah, 175 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to change the time of 176 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 1: the games to accommodate anybody. I mean, I'm going out 177 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: of a limb there putting my neck out on that one, Steve. 178 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 1: I'm putting my neck out maybe for you Mr Leiden, 179 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: you know, forget the weekends, for you have on the 180 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: late night during the week for quite some time. And now, 181 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: of course with the podcast you're making the big bucks. 182 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: Who had a big bucks off a podcast? Well you 183 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: know I'm raising my hand over here, yes, Scott playing 184 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 1: every long have you had this podcast? Out? By the way, 185 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 1: here's six months days everything behind the calendar. I could 186 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:10,319 Speaker 1: buy a book of stamps now with the money I've 187 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 1: made off this. So, in other words, if finally come 188 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 1: to your last guest on the list, and that I 189 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:20,959 Speaker 1: was asked to be on the show for full blown discolosure. 190 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: He ridiculed me for booking you on the that I 191 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: have text messages. Here's what happens I had. Uh you know, 192 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: I try to book ahead, right, we try to book ahead. 193 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 1: I try to book ahead, and I try to book 194 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: I try to book ahead and booking a guest two 195 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: weeks ago, I'll tell you who I failed miserably. A 196 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 1: second so I got an email from the publicist of 197 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: Michael Kay. You know who Michael Ka is to say, Yeah, 198 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: the Yankees announcer. Right, So he wrote a book and 199 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 1: he wanted to promote the book, and so he does 200 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: an afternoon drive show on the ESPN station in Manhattan. 201 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: So he's very proud of that. Yes, and he beat 202 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 1: Mike Francesse in the ratings and he loves it, let 203 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: you know that. Yeah. So anyway, like he can't we 204 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 1: normally record at the time his shows on in New York, 205 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: so obviously he can't do that. So I've been logistically 206 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 1: trying to work out with his publicist when we could 207 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:15,839 Speaker 1: get Michael on to do this podcast. So I gave 208 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: them a bunch of times, which would mean I'd have 209 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 1: to stay up even later, which is fine. I mean 210 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: I do it and record it, and so I'm playing 211 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: email tag with the publicist. The guy gets back to 212 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 1: me on Tuesdays. Is because we were supposed to it 213 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: was supposed to tap something with Michael Kay on Wednesday 214 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: or Thursday, and he said, I can't. You know, he 215 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: can't do it. And I'm still efforting, which when somebody 216 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,199 Speaker 1: says they're efforting, that means they're not doing it. The 217 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: efforting means they're not It's not gonna happen. So then 218 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 1: I I said, all right, we we gotta get somebody 219 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: on the podcast. I went to the guest and then 220 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 1: Gascon was like totally gobsmacked, totally like flummixed by the 221 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:55,559 Speaker 1: whole the whole situation. So that's I do have a 222 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: suggestion at this point of the podcast that you could 223 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: probably get Clipper Daryl because he is always available at 224 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 1: this time of year. You know. Yeah, that's true. And 225 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: by the way, to say you're listen, I mean, Fillows 226 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: don't know. One of the reasons I like you is 227 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 1: I remember you wearing Clipper paraphernalia. Oh yeah, I used 228 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,559 Speaker 1: to go to we would have people visit from out 229 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,319 Speaker 1: of town. We would go to Clipper games. It would. 230 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,719 Speaker 1: It could always be easier ticket to get. You want 231 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: a jacket, right, a Clipper jacket. Yes, I was given 232 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 1: to it when I when I worked in Anaheim, I 233 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 1: was given those what is it, silk sat and jackets 234 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:34,079 Speaker 1: the eighties, things that you would be like on Lakers 235 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: Finals videos where the ball boy is wearing the you know, 236 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: I got one of those with the Clippers and it's 237 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 1: the blue. I love those blue Clipper colors in the past. 238 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: I still have it. Yeah, no, I remember you would 239 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:46,680 Speaker 1: wear that from time to time. And it was that's 240 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:48,719 Speaker 1: why the Clippers of the People's team steve because you 241 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 1: can go the old the sports marine is gone in 242 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:52,840 Speaker 1: l A. But you could go there and you can 243 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: get a ticket. The sports it was a dump. It 244 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: was Are you going to tell the story? Because you 245 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,199 Speaker 1: used to cover Clipper games next to the color see 246 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,560 Speaker 1: Um in downtown l A. I remember once where were 247 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: you playing? Like some touch football game in the parking lot? 248 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 1: A game like midnight downtown? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, just 249 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: not far from South Central. Yeah we we would, you 250 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: know in my my as you notice, if I grew 251 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 1: up out there in my twenties going to games and 252 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: I had no girlfriend. I had no life. I had. 253 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 1: My life was revolving around my job covering the games. 254 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: And yeah, we would play in the parking lot, just 255 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: in the shadow of the coliseum, next to the l 256 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,319 Speaker 1: A Sports Arenia. We would play like football in the 257 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: middle of like after they get to cover the games, 258 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 1: you know, get out of there, like eleven o'clock, maybe 259 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: after the game when you do the post game stuff. 260 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: And who doesn't want to hang around downtown l A midnight. Yeah, especially, 261 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: I mean those days. As you know, it's a little 262 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: bit better now in that area because they build a 263 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: soccer stadium there. I would built right on top of 264 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 1: where the Clippers used to play, next to the color Yeah. 265 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 1: The last time I was in the sports arena, I 266 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: was at it. I was coming at USC Notre Dame 267 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 1: game and the the parking was all messed up, so 268 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: the overflow parking was on the floor of the l 269 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 1: A Memorial Sports so I parked. I parked the mallon 270 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: Wibile on the floor. Steve, I had a photo. I 271 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: can't find it. I have it somewhere here. And that 272 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: was That's an arena that has hosted NBA Finals games, 273 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: n c A tournament, hosted the Democratic Convention with Kennedy 274 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: when it was new. That's how old that, Yes, and 275 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: my last memory is parking my car on the floor 276 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: of the arena. Uh it was. I do recall after 277 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: one of those midnight football games, you came down ill 278 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: and we're not able to cover the next game or 279 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: two because of that. Well, I had some you know 280 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 1: what I really got. The sickest I got was in 281 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: ninety five after the baseball strike of I remember they 282 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 1: didn't play at the beginning of the year, and so 283 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: after we had missed the World Series. Yeah, yeah, so 284 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: they came back and they had to they had to 285 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: kind of jam in as many games as they could. 286 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 1: And so, and I'm such a knucklebole concept, they'll never 287 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 1: try that again in any sport. Yeah, exactly. So I 288 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta, I gotta go out there and 289 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: you know, cover every game and the dot it was 290 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 1: literally every day Dodges and Angels were playing like you know, 291 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: either one was home and the one and so I 292 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: I went out of so much and I got so sick. 293 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: I was like, ah, it's brutal, but from the weather, 294 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: you mean, not the food, well, the food was not helpful. 295 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 1: As you know, I eat a lot of press box food. 296 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: I don't eat much of that anymore, but I used to. 297 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: You know, I still eat popcorn occasionally, but I can 298 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: add ladies and gentlemen that in the many years of 299 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: being in press boxes in Orange County, for example, with 300 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 1: one big band Meller, and he used to earn that 301 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: nickname in the old days. By the way, that when 302 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: I was covering Mighty Duck hockey games, for example, I 303 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: was there as a member of the working press. Ben 304 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: was enjoying the oatmeal raisin cookie step worth profitable. Now 305 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: technically I was on assignment for the Mighty six ninety, 306 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 1: but I was enjoying the Yeah, they had those nights, 307 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: and I like the the what was the sugar cookies? 308 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 1: Those were good too. They remember the playoff when they 309 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: finally made the playoffs, and then a real hockey team, 310 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: the Detroit Red Wings, came to town and swept them. 311 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: But one of those playoff games went past midnight, as 312 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 1: I recall, and then we with our post game show 313 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 1: I used to do. We were until I think two 314 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: in the morning something like that. I got to sleep 315 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: at four in the morning, but at midnight at the 316 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: hockey arena. They had rent of everything, even water at 317 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: the box. They were literally trying sending interns to different 318 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: parts of the arena to try and find something because 319 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: it went to a second overtime. Of course, hockey overtime 320 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: could go forever. Yeah. So for those who don't know, 321 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: and you are a man of mystery, Steve, but you 322 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: he worked in Orange County. I first met you. Was 323 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: it It was k easy why right in the Arabs, 324 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 1: which used to be a legendary rock station. They had 325 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: an a m across the hall, which I know you 326 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: visited once. I love going to radio station. That was 327 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: very exciting to go to see I'm a radio nerd. 328 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: It was cool to be there. Yeah, well anymore it's 329 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: kind of nerds in that way. But yeah, I worked 330 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:19,119 Speaker 1: through nine until that place got sold. I worked in 331 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:23,239 Speaker 1: Anaheim and that was a lot of years. Well by 332 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: the end of it, that was a Korean station. Later 333 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:29,640 Speaker 1: I worked at when Pete Carroll's USC team was on radio. 334 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 1: We had a Santa station in Santa Monica and we 335 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: carried USC and then that got sold and that became 336 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 1: a Korean station too. So I'm two for two standby 337 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio so the investors who are looking to 338 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 1: tell yeah, boy, if they turned this network into a 339 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: Korean format in troubles, that would really think something. But 340 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: you hosted it was called Duck Calls, right, that was 341 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: the post game hockey talk, Yes Halls, and then you know, 342 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:00,719 Speaker 1: have the analyst on or what have you. And by 343 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 1: the end of it, you remember back when there were 344 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 1: there was a sports bar at Anaheim near the National 345 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: Sports Grill, the National Sports Grill. Yes, used to do 346 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: the show from there after the game and once the 347 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 1: parking getting out of the Ducks game was so bad, 348 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: it was the closest I came to missing the start 349 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: of the show, which, as you know, is the truly 350 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: horrendous feeling. That's the stuff that for a radio person, 351 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:26,159 Speaker 1: literal nightmares are made of. Yeah. I spent many a 352 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 1: night at the National Sports Grill, as you did. We 353 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 1: would hang out and we go we'd go there after 354 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: games and all the finger foods, the sampler by the 355 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 1: ten dollar sampler. Yeah. Were you there the night that 356 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: Jeff Juden uh famous? Were you there that night? Do 357 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 1: you remember the Jeff Judan incident? I'm not sure if 358 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,880 Speaker 1: you were there that incident? No, Yeah, no, no, he 359 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: was a you know, he was a picture journeyman. Pitcher, 360 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:53,439 Speaker 1: bounced around. The Angels picked him up, and so he 361 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:57,640 Speaker 1: was like playing pool by himself at the sports bar. 362 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,479 Speaker 1: And so one of the guys went up and say, hey, 363 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 1: can you know you want you want play pool whatever? 364 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:06,360 Speaker 1: And then he asked what we did and said when 365 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:08,440 Speaker 1: the radio, and he said no, he wanted to play 366 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 1: by himself instead of hang out hanging out with us. 367 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 1: But yeah, the Nationals. So he basically said, no, I'm 368 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: a first round draft choice and you are the great 369 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:21,360 Speaker 1: unwashed forget it. Yeah, but he's also the same guy, 370 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, who missed a start at the 371 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: beginning of the season when he was with Montreal because 372 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: he got a tattoo and it became infected. So oh, 373 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 1: which brings me to the great point, which be sure 374 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week 375 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox 376 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 1: Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio AP. Be sure 377 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays 378 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 1: at two am eastern eleven pm Pacific. Frankly shows don't 379 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 1: do this enough. You were overnight show was always so 380 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: good and occasionally just conversationally like this bringing up odd 381 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 1: baseball injury. Yes, yes, you and I could go back 382 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: and forth forever with you know, hey, Ricky Henderson wants 383 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 1: fell asleep on his ice pack, or you know so 384 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: and so was playing guitar hero so much that he 385 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: actually hurt himself and couldn't pitch in the next game. 386 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: There's a long list of those injuries. Well, there's Sammy 387 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: snow Sammy so so sneezing and they claimed back back 388 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: problem for someone getting a hot flip where they set 389 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:24,440 Speaker 1: your cleats on fire and he hopped up so much 390 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: he injured himself. My favorite is I think it was 391 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: Ivonne Calderoad of the American League at the hotel room 392 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 1: was having a nightmare of being chased by spiders. Oh 393 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:38,159 Speaker 1: that was Glenn. That was Glenn Hill. And he in 394 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: his hotel room like crashed through a glass table. Yeah, 395 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 1: which a nightmare was. There's an outfield Marty Cordova, remember 396 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 1: Marty Cordova. Yes, he lay, he fell asleep and a 397 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: sun sunbathing machine or whatever and he that And I 398 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,879 Speaker 1: always bring up Richie Sexon, which is one of the 399 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: greats of all time Ember in spring training. He showed up, 400 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 1: he was out of the lineup and he had he 401 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 1: really nasty headaches. They thought maybe he had some kind 402 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: of cancer in the brain or something like that, and 403 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: it turned out he's just wearing a hat that was 404 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:14,359 Speaker 1: too small and he didn't he didn't get on that one. 405 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,959 Speaker 1: I did bring this up actually recently on Fox with 406 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: Brian Know who's a cardinal saying because I brought up 407 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 1: the Vince Coleman injury, people who are younger than we 408 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 1: probably don't remember that. For the National League Championship Series, 409 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: the best stolen baseman in the league was not available 410 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: because he got his foot run over by the rain 411 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 1: tarp on the side of the field the tarp injury. 412 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: Wasn't he part of the firecrackers at Dodger Stadium? Was 413 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: he involved in that? Also? You know you covered Dodgers 414 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 1: longer than I. I I believe you have stories also lorker 415 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 1: than I. Regarding the old days have done. I have 416 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: a few. I know a few of where the few 417 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,159 Speaker 1: of the bodies are buried there. And remember there was 418 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 1: a player for the Marlins, Chris uh Coglin. Remember he 419 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 1: one of the shaving cream Poesy they had won a 420 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: game and they he got injured after a walk off 421 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 1: win because of a shaving cream pie in the face. 422 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: He tore some ligament in his leg, which is odd 423 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 1: to me, but I mean, yeah, we used to Weller 424 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 1: cut his finger once playing with the drone. So yeah, 425 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: that was the playoff start that was missing. We longed 426 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: for the days when that was the Trivor Bauer story 427 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,400 Speaker 1: that we talked about. We long for speak of longing 428 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: for days. I don't know if you remember this, Ben, 429 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: but Steve, we talked about this the day. I have 430 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 1: an old picture of YouTube Knuckleheads media day Dog Stadium Man, Steve, Steve, 431 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 1: you look exactly the same, I probably do you know? 432 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,119 Speaker 1: There was this four and it was one of the 433 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,919 Speaker 1: great points of our professional life that we could actually 434 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: play a baseball game at the field of Dodgers Stadium. 435 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 1: But the Dodgers for many years would have like before 436 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: a Saturday night game, they would with nobody in the 437 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: attendance at Dodger Stadium, they would have a game between 438 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: the print media against the electronic media of Los Angeles, 439 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:06,919 Speaker 1: and they would give you uniforms for the day and 440 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 1: you can take batting practice and shag flies in the outfield, 441 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: and the field was yours for the whole day, and 442 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: I saw one Ben Maller hit a ball on a 443 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: bounce to the left field wall. It was a stunning 444 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: distance for a media member at Dodger Stadium, the same 445 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 1: place where Mike Piazza and all these other guys were 446 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: hitting back in that decade. I do remember the knee 447 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 1: injury at first base, but I got easy the left. Yeah. 448 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 1: I I attempted to run, which was a mistake, and 449 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,160 Speaker 1: I hit the first base bag in my leg kind 450 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 1: of went all over the place and I ended up 451 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 1: on the Channel eleven news in l A that night. 452 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 1: Randy Cardoon put me on the Channel eleven. One of 453 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 1: our players, yes it was the Arcia, was on the team. 454 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: Student Ahan, who was the TV guy in l A 455 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 1: before Fred Rogan at Channel four. Stu was like the 456 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: player manager of our electronic media team. And it got 457 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: late in STUSI years where he couldn't run. And so 458 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 1: I was only there maybe two or three different summers 459 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: at these media games at the stadium, but one of 460 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 1: them I was there. My name wasn't on a list, 461 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 1: so I couldn't get into the lineup. But I'm still there. 462 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,120 Speaker 1: I still got a uniform on, and Stu couldn't run, 463 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 1: So I was his pinch runner for every at bat 464 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 1: that he had, and he I would He was a 465 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 1: left handed hitter. This is student a hand who was 466 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 1: a local legend, but also like was the announcer in 467 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,919 Speaker 1: the Rocky movies all of this, So he batting left, 468 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 1: he would swing and if he made contact, I would 469 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,719 Speaker 1: standing there near the right hand batters Buck Dodger Stadium, 470 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:37,879 Speaker 1: run down to first. I wasn't a pinch runner like 471 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: you take over at first base from home like at 472 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 1: a T Bowl game or something. I'm running for Stu 473 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 1: and I wound up coming around to score and it 474 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: was one one and you mentioned on the local news. 475 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 1: Our game winning run that night was on the local 476 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 1: news because a Martinez who could play, wound up having 477 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 1: this great slide at home and then we all celebrated, 478 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: throwing water on each other. It was a great, great night, 479 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: and hitting a in a previous game, a line single 480 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 1: the right center remains one of the highlights of my 481 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: professional career. Yeah, I'm right there with you when I 482 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 1: I'm glad you were there, and I would have that 483 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: would have been a home run. Distick. I used a 484 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,920 Speaker 1: Corey Snyder wooden bat, and if I had used a 485 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 1: metal bat, I am convinced that that would have been 486 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 1: a home run. And I'm a knucklehead because I wanted 487 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 1: to use a wooden bat and they had metal bats 488 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 1: there and she shouldn't used the metal bat. And I 489 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,119 Speaker 1: also remember, Steve, what was it? What was the guy's 490 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,400 Speaker 1: There was a guy that was a ringer from Long 491 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 1: Beach State? Remember the guy that Stu brought in? Really, 492 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 1: because there have been many Long Beach Steak guys into 493 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: the pros. By the way, Corey Snyder played Olympic Baseball 494 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 1: when Dodger Stadium hosted the games. He was on that 495 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 1: game with Chris Gwann and some others. Remember we were 496 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: losing one year. I don't know if you were there 497 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 1: that year, and Stu had brought in a guy from 498 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,679 Speaker 1: Long Beach State as a ringer to play in the game, 499 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 1: and he tried to sneak him into the lineup for 500 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: some extra at bats there because we were behind. And 501 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: then at one point ste realized there's so many ex 502 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 1: players in the media that he could get ex players 503 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 1: to play on the media team, and and kind of 504 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,919 Speaker 1: give us ringers in that like Rick Monday pinch hit 505 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,119 Speaker 1: or something exactly exactly. You have a bonus, Well didn't you? 506 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 1: Didn't you hit against Rick Hunty cut the law. I 507 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,399 Speaker 1: gotta hate against Rick Honeycutt a base at the center field. 508 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,360 Speaker 1: Rick Huneycutt led the American League and earn run average 509 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: in like three I think, no, listen, listen if you 510 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 1: want to play Ben mallar bingo, there you go that. 511 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 1: But who would I describe you as I think your 512 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 1: style to say you were like von Hayes. You were 513 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 1: reminded me of Vaughn Hayes, like when he was kind 514 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 1: of skinny. Yeah, because you were skinny. You were leaving 515 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,400 Speaker 1: a mean like who else? Unlike von Hayes. With the Angels, 516 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: I did not make the five million dollars a year, which, then, 517 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,679 Speaker 1: as you recall, forced Jackie Autry to start charging the 518 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 1: media four meals. But that was it when they started 519 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 1: paying Von Hayes and here we breath. Well, how great 520 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 1: is it now? I haven't been to an Angel game 521 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 1: in years. The last time I went to an Angel 522 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,719 Speaker 1: game was when Artie Marino got upset with t J. 523 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,439 Speaker 1: Simers because of a Columny wrote and moved the press 524 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: box down near the foul pol still there, I understand 525 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:16,160 Speaker 1: the press had very few seats in a suite way 526 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,439 Speaker 1: down the right field line, and some of the seats 527 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,680 Speaker 1: you cannot see home played from. Did you guys tell 528 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: I mean I remember this. I think last season at 529 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: least when we were a lot of Dodgers stadium. Steve Well, 530 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 1: we were there, all three of us were there together. 531 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: But Steve, I think you're mentioned that. I forget who. 532 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 1: I don't know what former owner was, don't know sorta. 533 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 1: But they would come into the press box and start 534 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: hunting down reporters. Oh, I was there when Stan Caston 535 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 1: lent loose on bill shaking of the l A in 536 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: the Dodger press box. What was that about? It was 537 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,199 Speaker 1: about the Dodgers had just announced that they were going 538 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: to have the All Star Game, which of course has 539 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: now been for a couple of years postponed. They still 540 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: had the All Star sign up in the stadium, not 541 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: moving that, uh, and so something else, uh came into 542 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 1: the l a Times article that wasn't more, you know, 543 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 1: the pr piece that he wanted for this great day 544 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 1: of announcing the Dodgers are going to host the All 545 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: Star Game in the first time in the decade. So 546 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 1: he with I believe his kid or nephew, her grandson 547 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:21,120 Speaker 1: in toe looked through the press box seat said we're shaken, 548 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: and then went after him like like I have not 549 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,400 Speaker 1: seen in a Los Angeles press box happened before. Well, 550 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: I was there the night Steve when remember Tommy Losorda 551 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: was the briefly the general manager of the Dodgers after 552 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: his managerial days. Yes, yeah, and it was. It was 553 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,479 Speaker 1: hilarious because and I loved I love Tommy, and Tommy 554 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: he said, listen, you guys can write whatever you wrot. 555 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 1: I don't care, you know whatever. So then like a 556 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 1: week later, Doug Krikorian wrote something nasty about Losorda in 557 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: his column in Coin of Columis and Long Beach, and 558 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: Losorta came in the press Where's where's decor and where's dog? 559 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 1: And he's like trying to hunt down Grigorian. And he 560 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 1: was in the in the media dining room, and any 561 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 1: Tommy comes over and just reads him the riot act. 562 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: It was well, of course, even when Tommy was happy 563 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 1: with you, you didn't want to be next to Tommy speaking, 564 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: because that's I recall once I was sitting with Chris 565 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 1: Myers and Bill mcdonaldson and some people in the Dodger 566 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: dining room that you mentioned, and Tommy comes up because 567 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 1: he knew then started to chat with him. But he's 568 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: standing over my shoulder. I needed a rain flicker, man. 569 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 1: Just it's just it's like, you know, the Indian name 570 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 1: Dances with Wolves. Tommy would have been spits when he talks, 571 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 1: because it just was always the case, don't be around him. 572 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 1: Nice guy. He could be a fun guy. But you 573 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 1: saw Colin that used to be his personal assistant for 574 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: many years. I always felt so far so sorry for 575 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 1: Coline because he would really take it on the chin 576 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 1: sometime being around Tommy that often. Yeah, And it's funny. 577 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 1: When I started covering the Dodgers, sort of was still 578 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,720 Speaker 1: managing the team, and so I would go in there, 579 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 1: and it was two different personalities that when the Dodgers 580 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 1: won a game, he was out in front. You know, 581 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 1: they had the spread of food in his office, so 582 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 1: the players had to come into his office to eat 583 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: after the game. So there'd be a stream of players 584 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: on their way out. They'd get a doggie bag and 585 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: go home or whatever. Sometimes they eat in the clubhouse, 586 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 1: and but when they won sort of would sit on 587 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 1: the front of his desk smiling, bubbling, you know, and 588 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,640 Speaker 1: then when they lost, he'd sit behind his desk eating 589 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: and not stopping eating while he was answering the question. 590 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: And if someone as you know, you Steve getting audio here, 591 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 1: it yeah, I mean it's and then he would spit 592 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 1: all over the mic, you know, the mic cover that 593 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 1: I had, and it was yeah. Well. Also, it's like 594 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 1: when Jim Tracy was the manager of the Dodgers, not 595 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 1: that many years later. He would always answer your questions 596 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 1: putting the first name of the person who asked it 597 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 1: into his answer, which would also ruin your audio. You know, 598 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: in the third inning Steve, well great, if your name's 599 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 1: not Steve, you're probably not to be able to use that. 600 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: Because I think one of the last times with Tommy 601 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 1: and food, which was such a huge part of his 602 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,720 Speaker 1: life honestly that I was around him, was you know, 603 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,640 Speaker 1: our friend Petro's, who's the famous local TV host on 604 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 1: our l A affiliate. Petro's happened to be in the 605 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 1: company suite at Dodger Stadium for one particular night just 606 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, and he his family because 607 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: his family owned a restaurant, they knew Tommy for a year. 608 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 1: Uncle Tommy, he without fail always called him. So Petro's 609 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 1: had the suite for the night. It's his family, his 610 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 1: people only. And they called down to where Lasorda always 611 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 1: sat near the home dugout, and they asked if he 612 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 1: could come up and signed some autographs and take pictures, 613 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 1: and sure enough he did. By the sixth sending, the 614 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: door opens and incomes driving you know those little carts 615 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 1: like the people wheel through the aisles of the supermarket. 616 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,480 Speaker 1: Tommy was in one of those, and he took every 617 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: picture and signed every autograph, and then everybody filed out 618 00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 1: before the game was over. And then it winds up 619 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 1: just Tommy and me in the sweet and a bunch 620 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: of food. So of course Tommy is very interested. Even 621 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,240 Speaker 1: his security guy had left to go repark the car, 622 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 1: get it near the entrance, getting ready to leave, and 623 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 1: Tommy looks over at the spread, which of course there's 624 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 1: plenty left. Wow, what have we got here? So I'm 625 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 1: trying to see what's in the middle of the sandwiches 626 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 1: for him, and so I give him one of these 627 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,280 Speaker 1: half a sandwiches on the paper plate, and he looks 628 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 1: at me like, come on, like get a little more. 629 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 1: He got diny sandwiches left over here is his His 630 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 1: exact words was, they're just going to throw it away. 631 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 1: So by the end of me piling on and the 632 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 1: chicken fingers and everything else, and literally bottles of water 633 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 1: that hadn't been opened yet, all in the little cart 634 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 1: basket in the front of the scooter that he had, 635 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 1: he went out a much heavier cart that he came in. Wow, 636 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 1: that's why he's right. Not the water bottles if it's 637 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: freeze for me. That was always the case with Tommy. 638 00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 1: I remember one of the Dodger reporters telling me that 639 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 1: Tommy went back to Philly. He was from Pennsylvania. A 640 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,640 Speaker 1: guy said, hey, come by my tailor shop and you 641 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,360 Speaker 1: can have I'll give you. I'll give you a suit, 642 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:09,959 Speaker 1: And of course Tommy for sure went over there. So 643 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 1: he got measured and spent the whole afternoon there and 644 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 1: then he comes to the counter with three suits and 645 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 1: the looks and is sheepish and says, Tommy, I can 646 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,320 Speaker 1: I can really only do one suit for free, And 647 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:27,760 Speaker 1: Tommy just blew up and through the sittem not worth 648 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 1: this time. Well, it was like that old the Jim 649 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: Healy Show, Freeloaders, Updates, Media, Freeloaders, Media Dateline, Dodger Stadium, 650 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:41,000 Speaker 1: And yeah, that is the radio show that we even 651 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,000 Speaker 1: long before I knew you used to always listen to. 652 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 1: Jim Healy would have a sports commentary show in afternoon 653 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: Drive where he would now it's commonplace on sports radio 654 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 1: that the board operator will play little sound bites clips 655 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 1: into the show and they can be really creative and funny. 656 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:02,560 Speaker 1: Jim Healy's entire show was that every couple of sentences. 657 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 1: And the thing is he was his own board up. 658 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:08,520 Speaker 1: He would be reaching for the cart machine to play 659 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,960 Speaker 1: while he was trying to read his own script, which 660 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,120 Speaker 1: in itself was sometimes comical. Well, and the technology that 661 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,400 Speaker 1: we have today compared to how he did it is 662 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,279 Speaker 1: just as you reference there, is insane. And he was 663 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,759 Speaker 1: a big influence on why I wanted to get into radio, 664 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:23,800 Speaker 1: The Jim Healy Show. And I remember when I started, 665 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,920 Speaker 1: and I started like nineteen years old, and Healy was 666 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,400 Speaker 1: still on, and everyone would at five thirty wanted to 667 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,399 Speaker 1: go out and here in the parking lot and hear 668 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,239 Speaker 1: what he really was gonna say and the dreaded six 669 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:40,000 Speaker 1: o'clock tone, and it's it's you mentioned Stunahan, the manager 670 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,280 Speaker 1: of our media team. But when I first met Stew 671 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,960 Speaker 1: as a media again, and I'm still a kid, you know, 672 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,400 Speaker 1: I watched it on TV growing up, but my memory 673 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:48,960 Speaker 1: of Stu every time I saw him was in the 674 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,560 Speaker 1: press dining room at Dodger Stadium or somewhere else eating, 675 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 1: and I just read. My mind would go to, uh, 676 00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,959 Speaker 1: you know, silver tips, Stew they called, and he would 677 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,880 Speaker 1: only lay a sound effect of pigs snorting when he 678 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,719 Speaker 1: mentioned media preloaders and all the food they would come 679 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 1: to appropriate And it didn't really matter when I would 680 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,279 Speaker 1: try to get there earlier games, you know, because I 681 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:10,960 Speaker 1: want to soak it all in. And no matter when 682 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,200 Speaker 1: I got there, Stool was already eating in the press room. 683 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 1: It was. It was unbelievable. And also, Healy, I mentioned 684 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,560 Speaker 1: Kurt machines. Everything that used to play on the air 685 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,280 Speaker 1: and radio backs and had to literally be on tape, 686 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,360 Speaker 1: you know, something advanced from cassette tapes, but something you 687 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,000 Speaker 1: could physically touch hold. And now I remember you telling 688 00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,800 Speaker 1: me when you first started at Fox didn't you start 689 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 1: as the job I have that David and I have 690 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,560 Speaker 1: as anchor before you got into your own show, And 691 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,840 Speaker 1: that meant you had to find the sound bites of 692 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,920 Speaker 1: the ball games or something to play in your report, 693 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,680 Speaker 1: but nothing was on physical tape. It was a new system, 694 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,600 Speaker 1: the computer base, where you could just press play and 695 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:51,200 Speaker 1: just as easily delete something accidentally. Yeah, yeah, I remember 696 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,359 Speaker 1: when I got in I I one of my first games. 697 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,520 Speaker 1: When I was in San Diego as an intern, I 698 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,560 Speaker 1: had to pull the carts the spots for the for 699 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,959 Speaker 1: the shows, and they technology obviously changed over the years. 700 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:04,600 Speaker 1: And well, but when you were an anchor, I do 701 00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:08,000 Speaker 1: remember one point where you you did some home run 702 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,120 Speaker 1: happened and you did accidentally delete it out of the No, 703 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,840 Speaker 1: there were some epic disasters when I was that you 704 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,600 Speaker 1: said for the next three reports you kept replaying the 705 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,399 Speaker 1: play by play of a single by Craig Pocket like 706 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:27,160 Speaker 1: that big Well you play all you had you playing 707 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,040 Speaker 1: with you? Yeah, because the editing there's an editing department 708 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:31,759 Speaker 1: with a lot of people behind the scenes that edit 709 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:35,320 Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio and and you know, underappreciated, underpaid 710 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,440 Speaker 1: behind the scenes people. But in the in the early days, 711 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 1: some of the hosts were complaining, we didn't have any sounds, 712 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:44,279 Speaker 1: so they they had Craig who's in the back there, 713 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:46,600 Speaker 1: they had him and there was that was it had 714 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:50,719 Speaker 1: one editor and and then the anchor was expected to 715 00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,680 Speaker 1: cut up the sound as they were, you know, doing 716 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,880 Speaker 1: their job or whatever. And we all used to I 717 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,320 Speaker 1: used to do that in Anaheim. Used to used to 718 00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,799 Speaker 1: wait for the ABC feed to give me the evening sound. 719 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,000 Speaker 1: Had a late night show, and I can actually get 720 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,880 Speaker 1: sound from games that happened that night. It was revolutionary. 721 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,560 Speaker 1: People don't remember that. When we were tiny kids the 722 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,799 Speaker 1: five o'clock news, the only baseball highlights you would see 723 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,160 Speaker 1: was if there was a Cubs game because they could 724 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,120 Speaker 1: take the highlight off w g N or something other 725 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,759 Speaker 1: than that. Even before that, they used to literally have 726 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,719 Speaker 1: to film the local ball game and come back and 727 00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,600 Speaker 1: develop the film at the station, So they rarely had 728 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,880 Speaker 1: highlights from the late innings because they needed the extra time. 729 00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,040 Speaker 1: So when you go to Dodger Stadium now and they 730 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,560 Speaker 1: talk about any Dodger great Don Sutton in history or something, 731 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,440 Speaker 1: usually the only highlights you will see will be stuff 732 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:44,200 Speaker 1: that was televised, like a playoff game. There usually weren't 733 00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,680 Speaker 1: a lot of regular season home games carried or film 734 00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:51,879 Speaker 1: available from regular season games. Yeah. Hey, by the way, 735 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,440 Speaker 1: fun fact, I don't know if I've told you this, 736 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,480 Speaker 1: maybe I have so years ago. Wrong Button Bob Garap 737 00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:01,000 Speaker 1: we call him wrong Button Bobby. He's shut down. He 738 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,279 Speaker 1: I told him to reset my computer. You have to 739 00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:06,759 Speaker 1: go into the what called the rack room, an all 740 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,640 Speaker 1: computer room kept at a very controlled temperature on like 741 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,000 Speaker 1: some of the other rooms. Yeah, that's where the that's 742 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,920 Speaker 1: where the brains are the heart of Fox Sports radios, 743 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:19,200 Speaker 1: the technology stuff. So, and there's literally computers everywhere you 744 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,319 Speaker 1: look and all this stuff. So he said, can you 745 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,200 Speaker 1: reset my computer? S S You're no problem. So he 746 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,600 Speaker 1: goes in the back to reset the computer, and he 747 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,400 Speaker 1: hit a button that we didn't know exist. He shut 748 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:32,640 Speaker 1: the entire network off the air, thus the nickname wrong 749 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,520 Speaker 1: Button Bob. And so the most amazing thing is he 750 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,880 Speaker 1: didn't lose his job. The second most amazing thing is 751 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,439 Speaker 1: that we found out the emergency programming. If FSR goes 752 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,280 Speaker 1: off the air, they have up in the master control. 753 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:48,399 Speaker 1: They click a switch and they put emergency programming on right, 754 00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:53,040 Speaker 1: And so the emergency programming. The first voice was you. 755 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:57,840 Speaker 1: It was Steve the Seger. Yes, you were on the 756 00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,040 Speaker 1: it's supposed to be an evergreen fee, but it was 757 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,399 Speaker 1: you giving college basketball scores. And this was like during 758 00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,279 Speaker 1: the summer, which doesn't make a lot of sense, and 759 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,279 Speaker 1: so there wouldn't be dead air give old scores. But 760 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,400 Speaker 1: you're You're happy to know, Steve, if there's like a 761 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,560 Speaker 1: nuclear disaster or some kind of global event where network 762 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,600 Speaker 1: goes off the air, your voice will be played because 763 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:20,920 Speaker 1: I'm sure they haven't changed that. I'm sure it's the same, 764 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,279 Speaker 1: the same audio that they've just kept there for all 765 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,279 Speaker 1: these years, just in case anything. Happy who says you 766 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:31,200 Speaker 1: don't learn anything on podcast, that's right, even on one, 767 00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:35,240 Speaker 1: I just learned something I didn't know. Yeah, absolutely, Now 768 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,680 Speaker 1: what then, you have been very good at staying off 769 00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,839 Speaker 1: of Like you're on social media, but you're not on 770 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,480 Speaker 1: social media. Give you credit, fact because I hate social 771 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,799 Speaker 1: media and I'm on there for work, but I pick 772 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,200 Speaker 1: and choose. I don't get paid to be on social media, right, 773 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,240 Speaker 1: that's my argument. I don't get paid. I get paid 774 00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:52,600 Speaker 1: by Fox. I don't get paid by the people in 775 00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,960 Speaker 1: Twitter or whatever. You already have a brand unlike some people. 776 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:57,680 Speaker 1: Well no, but I mean I go on there. I mean, 777 00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,399 Speaker 1: people get upset when you got to, you know, deal 778 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:00,680 Speaker 1: with the Troulton. I don't have to deal with the 779 00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:02,840 Speaker 1: trolls when I feel like I'll deal with the trolls. 780 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:04,400 Speaker 1: But you've been able to avoid that. I give you 781 00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,560 Speaker 1: credit for that, Steve, because I never have felt like 782 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,960 Speaker 1: I wanted this. As much as I adore sports, I 783 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:14,239 Speaker 1: really do, but I just didn't want the job to 784 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,959 Speaker 1: consume me. There are days that you know, they won't 785 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,600 Speaker 1: let me work, and I just want to take those 786 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,600 Speaker 1: days off. I'll still watch whatever ball game, you know, 787 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,080 Speaker 1: from my couch in the evening during dinner or something, 788 00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,319 Speaker 1: but I'm not going to be tweeting during it. So 789 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,440 Speaker 1: I follow Twitter and it's very valuable during my shift 790 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,480 Speaker 1: at the studio, but I don't tweet, and I don't 791 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,840 Speaker 1: tell you, Hey, I'm standing in line at the store 792 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:38,400 Speaker 1: and you know that. Yeah, I don't. I don't know anything. 793 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,399 Speaker 1: And like I stopped years ago, I did like live 794 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,320 Speaker 1: tweet during games. I very I might do it for 795 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,359 Speaker 1: a super Bowl or something like that, but I very 796 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:52,399 Speaker 1: rarely or a Clippers playoffs game. Well, only only oh 797 00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:57,400 Speaker 1: as close as ever this past year though, Yeah, yeah 798 00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:00,719 Speaker 1: it was I got hurt. It's still a little fresh. 799 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:05,680 Speaker 1: I can hear that, yeah, you know, because it used 800 00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,680 Speaker 1: to be the good old days. Remember when Elton brand 801 00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,439 Speaker 1: played a game seven in the second round. So now 802 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,600 Speaker 1: you got something past that. I was at that. I 803 00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:15,560 Speaker 1: traveled the Phoenix when he played the Sons and Clipper 804 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,640 Speaker 1: Darryll actually got on, he got off the team bus. 805 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:19,440 Speaker 1: They took him on the road trip. It was crazy 806 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,959 Speaker 1: back and yeah, that was of course the Staples Center days. 807 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,120 Speaker 1: You remember that, like when Mark Jackson was playing with 808 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,640 Speaker 1: the Clippers at the Sports Arena, which we referenced early 809 00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,920 Speaker 1: I covered. I remember Clippers game was the last game 810 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,000 Speaker 1: of the season in the nineties, and it was when 811 00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:39,239 Speaker 1: David Robinson scored sev on the last day. I wasn't 812 00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,600 Speaker 1: at that one. That was to win the scoring title. 813 00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,200 Speaker 1: And Madonna was there because Dennis Rodman was on the 814 00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,120 Speaker 1: team and they were together at the time, and she's 815 00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,480 Speaker 1: she's sitting in the first row and at one of 816 00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,080 Speaker 1: the time outs, the Clipper girls they're dancing to a 817 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:55,279 Speaker 1: Madonna song. She could not have been less impressed. She 818 00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,560 Speaker 1: didn't even look she would busy in her conversation. She 819 00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,719 Speaker 1: did go in the Spurs locker room afterwards. It was 820 00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:05,040 Speaker 1: it was a very strange day altogether, capped by the 821 00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,959 Speaker 1: fact that it was a real seventy one that David 822 00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,560 Speaker 1: Robinson scored. It wasn't like let's just not play defense 823 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:15,399 Speaker 1: or anything. He was great. Yeah, well she used the material. Girl, 824 00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:19,640 Speaker 1: she can't be bothered. She was bigger than all of 825 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:21,759 Speaker 1: this is what we got the impression. And you know 826 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:25,520 Speaker 1: that I have fond memories. I mean those I remember 827 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,200 Speaker 1: the I covered the Lakers at the Forum unfortunately, and 828 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,760 Speaker 1: the Clippers. But like Jack Jack, you know Jack Nichols, 829 00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,800 Speaker 1: he would come in the media room at the Forum 830 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:40,120 Speaker 1: and get coffee and I mean just like, well, yeah, 831 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:41,520 Speaker 1: I mean, but it was very odd. You know, you 832 00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,360 Speaker 1: see this at that time. He was still a huge 833 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,960 Speaker 1: Hollywood you know star, and he just be hanging out. Yea. 834 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,719 Speaker 1: He used to go to road games to back then 835 00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:49,560 Speaker 1: on the play having having a cup of coffee. And 836 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,560 Speaker 1: then the sportsmen it was such a dump. They had 837 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,560 Speaker 1: those trough bathrooms and it was like the only time 838 00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,480 Speaker 1: there were any real people there was when the Celtics 839 00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,200 Speaker 1: of the Sixers and Nicks and the Lakers were laying 840 00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:03,440 Speaker 1: the Clippers and so or the Bulls with Jordan's Otherwise, 841 00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,680 Speaker 1: they literally were averaging like six seven thousand for for 842 00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:09,839 Speaker 1: an NBA season. Yeah, I was there for a preseason 843 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:13,320 Speaker 1: game against the Denver Nuggets and we counted the crowd. 844 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,000 Speaker 1: It was like seven. We counted. We were so bored 845 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:18,960 Speaker 1: on radio road that we counted the crowd. But no, 846 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,160 Speaker 1: I can bring this conversation full circle because on that 847 00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,879 Speaker 1: Madonna day, I am reminded that one media member who 848 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:29,520 Speaker 1: was in our media baseball game Dodger Stadium as well, 849 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:34,480 Speaker 1: Norm Peters, happened to have with his notes and everything 850 00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:36,280 Speaker 1: else in his bag that he brought to the Clipper 851 00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:38,920 Speaker 1: game that day, happened to have for some unknown reason, 852 00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,360 Speaker 1: and eight by ten of Madonna and she happen to 853 00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,759 Speaker 1: be there, and he that he actually got on one 854 00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,879 Speaker 1: of the one of the Hollywood news shows and entertainment tonight, 855 00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,239 Speaker 1: one of those the next day with a b real 856 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,839 Speaker 1: footage of Norm getting Madonna to sign his eight by 857 00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:59,400 Speaker 1: ten And Norm still has that great now retired. By 858 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,480 Speaker 1: the way Norman retired, Norm used to be at the 859 00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:06,000 Speaker 1: first row the table with the Clippers announcers on Prime 860 00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,520 Speaker 1: Ticket as their statistician for years, you could as a 861 00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,919 Speaker 1: camera went left and right throughout the game, you could 862 00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:14,520 Speaker 1: always pick out Norm. He was not only a great statistician, 863 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,319 Speaker 1: but exactly the right mentality to be that you have 864 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,959 Speaker 1: to be a little picky because that's what the job 865 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,759 Speaker 1: demands and that's what makes the broadcast better. He was 866 00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,319 Speaker 1: great at the absolutely well, see we have gone way 867 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,440 Speaker 1: too long, but we you know, listen, you were so 868 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:31,040 Speaker 1: much better than most of these people that we have 869 00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:33,200 Speaker 1: on the podcast. We should have you on again. What 870 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:38,759 Speaker 1: a great idea, What a great fucking idea. You can't curse. Well, 871 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,960 Speaker 1: if there's gonna be swearing, I'm not sure if I'm 872 00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,720 Speaker 1: going to return now, I can't tell anyone to listen 873 00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:45,920 Speaker 1: to it. I guess this is kind of an homage 874 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:50,040 Speaker 1: to because Bet, I bet, I know you don't do you? 875 00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:52,080 Speaker 1: Guys haven't seen each other in what like two years? Right? 876 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,239 Speaker 1: I did see him in the parking lot occasionally, very 877 00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:58,960 Speaker 1: rare occasion, showed up to the studio post pandemic. Ben 878 00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,560 Speaker 1: the sneaky little thing. I'm gonna peel the curtain back 879 00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:03,760 Speaker 1: a little bit for you and for the audience because 880 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:07,799 Speaker 1: Steve and I work similar schedules money through Friday, and 881 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,640 Speaker 1: certain shows that we're on, like typically your show how structured, 882 00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,000 Speaker 1: Like if you're starting at eleven o'clock and you're going 883 00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,160 Speaker 1: to twelve and that hour, you'll typically toss to Eddie 884 00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:19,280 Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour to see what's trending 885 00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,919 Speaker 1: at eleven thirty or more along the lines of that time. 886 00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,520 Speaker 1: Normal host might do that, Yeah, normal host. Well, the 887 00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,040 Speaker 1: shows that Steve and I work on, he taught me 888 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:31,280 Speaker 1: this trick. The shows that we work on don't break 889 00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,319 Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour, they'll break at like 890 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,520 Speaker 1: so Steve taught me, he said. He sat me down 891 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,440 Speaker 1: one day and he said, David, I need you to 892 00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:46,640 Speaker 1: do this and emulate. He says, for as long as 893 00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:50,120 Speaker 1: they go over the bottom of the hour, your update 894 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:56,200 Speaker 1: needs to be equally as long, not equally. It's just 895 00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,759 Speaker 1: that I have no qualms about going along. If you 896 00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:02,640 Speaker 1: take eight minutes to get to that's the best part. Clearly, 897 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:06,640 Speaker 1: the clock means nothing. You can't suddenly as you should. 898 00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:07,960 Speaker 1: By the way, and let me tell you some of 899 00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,000 Speaker 1: the shows to say you've worked on, you are better 900 00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:11,440 Speaker 1: than the people on the shop I'm just I'm just 901 00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,080 Speaker 1: pointing that out. I'm not saying maybe not now, but 902 00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:15,960 Speaker 1: back in the day, that's all. It's just great though, 903 00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:17,840 Speaker 1: when you come back from breaking the bottom of the 904 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,040 Speaker 1: hour for the last segment, in the last segments like 905 00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:24,560 Speaker 1: sixty seconds and lea. I have been guilty of that 906 00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:28,360 Speaker 1: from time to time myself. I have occasionally had committed 907 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,759 Speaker 1: that cardinal sin. But maybe you ought to tell any 908 00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:35,200 Speaker 1: to do this. Yeah, exactly, all right, listen, we we 909 00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,200 Speaker 1: love you, Steve. I'll catch up with you. Then I 910 00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:39,640 Speaker 1: should go. And remember, didn't we go to Tommy's one time? 911 00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,680 Speaker 1: I think we went to since the original location is 912 00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:46,480 Speaker 1: near Dodger Stadium. That was another eleven PM Burger run. Yeah, 913 00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:48,359 Speaker 1: I see, I used to eat it Tommy's a lot 914 00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:52,080 Speaker 1: back in the day. Anyway, that's right. I'm big and 915 00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:53,759 Speaker 1: now I do this inter minute fasting, so I don't 916 00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,560 Speaker 1: eat that much. But I'm not like, I can't be 917 00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:59,640 Speaker 1: like you have the greatest uh your body processes food. 918 00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:03,560 Speaker 1: I'm sure you eat, Steve. Yeah, I am so jealous. 919 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:07,000 Speaker 1: You'll look like von Hayes in a baseball uniform. Yeah, 920 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,000 Speaker 1: that's an outdated reference. I canna update my reference, but anyway, 921 00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:15,799 Speaker 1: thank you, Steve. Appreciated Buddy. Be sure to catch live 922 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,520 Speaker 1: editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am 923 00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:22,360 Speaker 1: Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the 924 00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,280 Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app. Be sure to catch live editions 925 00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:27,920 Speaker 1: of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern 926 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,239 Speaker 1: eleven pm Pacific