WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Fun Friday at the Race Track! 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:01.520 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.440 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.240 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.560 of the Old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.560 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:17.520 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:18.440 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.360 The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:27.080 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.519 It is the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:37.720 g Radio Plausibly live from the big event, the Super 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:39.440 Bowl horse racing, the Breeders Cup. 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.840 This is cool, Danny, this is awesome. I love the vibe. 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:43.560 I've been walking around here. It's been nuts. 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.160 You're either gonna hear horse fans jumping up and down 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.720 screaming about the horse that they have on the monitors there, 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:54.040 or Hetros from Petros and money out on his microphone. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.320 If you could see this, it's like a Saturday Night 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:59.040 Live episode because when we're on one table, the next 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.720 table is Pedros and Bill Plashky, and then Rob Parker's 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:03.480 on the other side. 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.880 We're all lined up, but joining us. This guy is 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:08.160 the Guru. 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:12.200 Of Gurus, the connoisseur of horse racing as a pundit 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:16.119 on television. Todd Trump joins us here live on tape, 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:20.160 of course, from the amazing Breeders Cup, the fortieth edition 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:20.800 of the Breeders Cup. 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:22.080 Todd welcome, It's great to see you. 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:23.880 It's great to be with you, Ben and Danny and 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.840 I have to say, you know, when you talk about venues, yes, 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.240 this is one of the most amazing racetracks in the world. 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.480 But let's be honest, it's one of the best sporting 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:35.200 venues we have in America when you look at iconic 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:39.080 places that sporting events take place. Just in Los Angeles, 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.640 we all Revere, Dodger Stadium and Chavez Ravine and it'll 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:44.480 be here sixty years from and I will still be 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.880 loving it. Sam Anita is in that category. It's a 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.520 treasured facility for any sport. So it's no surprise with 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.160 a facility like this, they're hosting the Breeders Cup for 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.840 a record eleventh time. I just I love it here. 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.720 I sit in the grand stand in those San Gabriel 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:03.320 mount have been there for centuries. But every day it's 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.440 a different view. One day it's clear, one day it's 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:09.320 smoggy one day, it's cloudy, one day it's snowing. Yea, 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.320 there is no other racetrack in the world that has 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.200 that view. Santa Neita is a treasure. So even if 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.200 you're a casual sports fan and you didn't get to 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:18.840 the Breeders Cut, you got to come out here and 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:19.560 experience today. 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:21.959 Yeah, it's amazing and I love my favorite thing. Actually, 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:23.359 I used to live right in here here, so I 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:24.919 used to come here a lot. I moved a little 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.280 further away, but I love coming out here, and today 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.359 I was walking around the same thing. You see some 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.280 guys who've got the you know, they've got the racing 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.000 forms in front of them. They're henty cap and every 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.920 race there's other people that's just kind of you know, drinking, 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.720 having a good time. There's women all dressed up to 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.000 the nines. It's just a crazy, wild scene. 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.720 No matter how many times I've come here, I discover 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.760 part of the building I didn't know exist. There's bathrooms. 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:47.679 I don't think I've been touched. It's nineteen fifty six, 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.359 like going back in a time machine. But you talk 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.880 about those guys with the racing forms, the railbirds who've 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:54.840 been here for years and years and years. So one 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:56.240 of the things that happens. So you have a live 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.520 day of racing at sant Anita, and let's say you've 0:02:58.520 --> 0:02:59.760 had a bad day. It's like, I still want the 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.000 act to have a place called the paddock Room. So 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.640 it's the lowest of the building and it's all the 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.640 hardcore people. I'm trying to make a comeback on the day. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.800 And they affectionately call the paddock room the dungeon. So 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.880 you go underneath the grand stand here. I just I 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:16.400 love every part of it, even the dungeon. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.079 Yeah, it's great, great day people watching. You're into that too. 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:20.720 I mean the horse racing is great too, But in. 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.800 Between it, I like, I think we we talked earlier 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.760 this week day about the fact that horse racing is 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.480 it's almost you know, it was a very popular sport 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.560 early in America. Now the way people live their lives 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.080 now where you have short attention spans, but you have 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.360 you have a lot of time between races where you 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.040 can you know, you can socialize, ye can put your 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:39.760 bed in and so it's really cool. 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:41.480 One thing I noticed when I walked in. 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.440 You see folks that are just dressed with shorts and 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.120 flip flops and T shirts. And then you see folks 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.080 that are dressed to the nines and look like, you know, 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:51.600 they pulled up in a Bentley with a. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.680 Butler and crazy. The mix of people, that's what I. 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.080 Love about it. You can make a day at the 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.000 race is whatever you want it to be. You know, 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.120 the race that everybody you know is the Kentucky Derby. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.440 It's phenomenal to watch how people Your imagination is the 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.440 only thing that holds you back when it comes to 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.520 how you want to dress and go out to the races. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.760 You can be casual, you can dress up. I think 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.960 the worst moniker ever given to the sport of horse 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.120 racing was the sport of kings Like I hate when 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.480 people use that moniker because it's the sport for everyone. 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.560 It really is, and it's truly accessible. Yes, Mike Ropoli 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.400 just won the previous race year. He had not one, 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.240 but two one billion dollar ideas that he sold and 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.840 he's pretty well off, but he is very accessible. And 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.000 I look at the diversity in our sport. It's it's 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.640 more diverse than any other sport and ahead of time. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.640 But the fact that you could have a billionaire Mike 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.680 like Mike Ropoli, and then the stable hands and Todd 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:47.800 Pletcher's operation who maybe are just getting started and not 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:49.520 making a lot of money and now get to be 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:51.479 on this big stage for the Breeders' Cup. There's so 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:53.880 much I love about racing on a daily basis, but 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.440 it is not the sportive kings. It's a sport that 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.000 is accessible to everyone. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.080 Yeah, and also I think it's important for those it 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:01.800 might be listening if you're listening to the podcast, or 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:03.760 maybe you're not a hardcore horse racing personally. 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:05.960 When I was growing up, it was always the Triple 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:07.400 Crown races. That was it. 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.039 Yeah, But I've talked to people over the years thought 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.440 about the Breeders' Cup and for people in the business, 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.919 like this is the this is the main event. If 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.400 you're in the industry, explain like why this is so important. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.040 Because the Triple Crown only highlights one division and it's 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:22.960 the three year olds. You can only run in the 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.240 Kentucky Derby as a three year old. That's why winning 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.520 the Triple Crown is truly one of the hardest things 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.480 in sports because you only get one season. You can't 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.640 have anything go wrong. You only get five weeks to 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.080 run those three races, and so much can happen along 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.880 the way. So the Triple Crown has always been about 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.720 three year olds. The Breeders Cup brings the best of 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.600 all horses together. So the Long Gene Breeders' Cup Classic 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:46.600 tomorrow will be three year olds that you saw in 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:50.080 the Kentucky Derby Trail now taking on older horses who 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.159 you maybe didn't watch throughout the course of the year. 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.560 On that card, you'll see some of the best turf 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.600 horses going a mile and a half, so horses you're 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:58.800 run on grass. You'll see some of the best sprinters 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.480 in the world. So the Breeders Cup has never been 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:05.440 defined by one age category or one distance. These are 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.560 many disciplines and their horses from all over the world. 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.839 They're not just the best in the United States. They're 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:12.880 bringing over the best from Ireland, the best from England, 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.800 the best from France, and this year, once again the 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:19.120 best from Japan in the Breeders Cup. Just a couple 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.000 of years ago at Del Mar it was a breakthrough 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.960 moment for Japanese racing. Japanese racing has always been great, 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.400 but when they would ship out like one of their 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.880 best horses, Deep Impacked. They so badly wanted to win 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.560 the biggest racing Europe, the pre to Lark Day Triomphs, 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.120 and he tanked on the stage that they wanted to win. 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.479 It was a huge blow to their industry. I was 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.080 there when he came back to his home course at Tokyo, 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.320 and I've never seen anything like it. Deep Impact one 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.440 of the best horses I've ever seen. That was one 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.799 of the great moments his comeback race. But this industry, 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.800 the Japanese racing industry, has always been poised to go 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.040 around the world and win, and now they're doing it. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.320 USh Pitzsoro took the Dubai World Cup earlier this year, 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.840 one of the richest races in the world, and he's 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:01.280 got to be one of the favorites in the Long 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.960 Jean Breeders Cup Classic, if not the favorite. It was 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.960 unfathomable when you had the first Breeders Cup at Hollywood 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.360 Park which is now the Rams and Chargers Locker Room, 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.800 that here we would be forty editions later and the 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.560 favorite for the Long Jean Breeders Cup Classic would be 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.160 a Japanese champion. Pretty amazing. 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.440 It's pretty cool. Go full circle and we're hanging out 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:23.600 here at the Breeders Cup. 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.360 And again, by the way we are, it's underway and 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.640 if you're able to make it. I know this podcast 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.280 obviously people listening all over the country in the world, 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.760 but if you're in southern California or you're planning on 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.360 being in Southern Shore, yeah, it's awesome. 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:39.440 I'm going to try to come back out. 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.040 If we're allowed, Nanny, I'm gonna try to say, yeah, 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.679 you know, if our backstage passes there are good for tomorrow. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.640 I didn't think I was going to get into radio row. 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.440 That's how good. I almost didn't make this. 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:49.000 I don't know. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.360 But we are here and if you want to get tickets, 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.360 there are some left. It's just amazing the racing, but 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.680 the people watching, the vibe if you've never been to 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.600 a race, and what a great first race to go to, 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.200 the big for those in the business here the Breeders Cup. 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.960 So if you want tickets, you can get tickets. Obviously 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.760 it is on Saturday here, so go to Breeders Cup dot. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:12.280 Com and the World Championship Britis Cup World Championships that 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:13.040 are going on here. 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.200 Now we'll get back to racing of course, but I 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.520 know that you are a Minnesota Vikings fan. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.920 Oh boss by yes, by the way, thanks for the 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:23.920 purple uncover to your table there. 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.400 We want to make you comfortable. Can you play quarterback? 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.320 But I'm sorry about Kirk Cousins. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:31.840 But we got a rocket scientist. Now, I didn't know 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:36.120 that Dops was an actual rocket scientist. Yeah, and this 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.840 is long suffering. And my my cousin said this to 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.040 me because he's from Minnesota. He's like a brother to me. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.160 So we followed the Vikings all our lives. He's like, 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.240 why couldn't our parents given us a different team to follow? 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.760 I mean it is I cannot begin to describe the 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.959 pain from Harry Anderson's first missed field goal of the 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.199 year in the NFC Championship. And I know we would 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.000 have absolutely beat the Broncos that year with Randy Moss 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.560 and that offense. They could not have stopped us. And 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.199 then about two thousand and nine, I'm watching this gross 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.200 overtime defeat to the New Orleans Saints. Oh, bounty gate 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.360 came out of that. Then, of course they changed the 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.719 overtime rules, which was too late for the Vikings. After that, 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.680 and I'm walking for an hour and a half on 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:22.360 this bike path near my house, just by myself, and it. 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:23.000 Just occurred to me. 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.520 I'm like, they don't even know exist, Like why don't 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.600 I care so much about this too? Whether they win 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:28.640 or lose, they don't know I'm here. 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.240 But yes, LIKEELIONGS, we deal with our teams too every 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.000 week every weekend. And one quick other side note before 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:38.000 we get back to the horse racing. A vet of TVG, Yeah, 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.320 which is awesome. And you had a famous moment with 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:42.680 Jerry the King Lawler. 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.280 I treasure the most look I've been at It was TVG. 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.880 Now it's FanDuel TV. So I've been at this network 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.520 for twenty four years, seeing had done a lot of things, 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.480 been to some fantastic races and YadA winning the Breeders 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.680 Cup Classic here in two thousand and nine is my 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.640 favorite racing moment. But resting Jerry the King Law for 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.559 my broadcasting career is kind of weird. Is my highlight. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.160 Yeah, and so how that happen? 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.120 We're about four years into the network. Nobody knows who 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:09.559 we are. The only way you can see us is 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.959 on the sea band satellite dishes. You know, they're the 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.560 size of a jacuzzie, so no one knew who we were. 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.920 So we're always trying to get attention, and I was 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:18.320 the guy who wanted to go out and get attention. 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.960 So one night at sam Houston Racecourse down in Texas, 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.120 a friend of my, Martha Claus and she's the publicity director, 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.400 the general manager there would hold wrestling matches on Friday 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.959 night after the races. So to promote the matches, she'd 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.319 bring out some of the key wrestlers out into the 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.480 Winter Circle and after a race, they'd build up the 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:42.240 crowd stick around later wrestling. So before she interviews Jerry 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.040 the King Lawler, she goes, hey, and she says this off, Mike, 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:49.359 could you work in my friend Todd Shrump in California. 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.920 He's like, no problem. So she goes to ask him 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.040 a question and goes, now, there's this guy in California. 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.920 His name is Todd Truppy. If he grabs the mic 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.160 from her and he goes, you, I mean, Todd, schmuck. 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:06.520 Those in this whole great thing. And he ends by saying, 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.720 and hey, schmuck, if you ever want to leave Hollywood 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.080 and come to Texas, I'll restue you anytime anywhere So 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.480 I get a call at home from the people who 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.920 are watching the broadcast in our studio who are working 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:19.920 that night, and they said, can you come on air? 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.520 I'm like why, because Jerry the King Waller just challenge 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.360 you to a wrestling match. I'm like what, So they 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.680 catch me up on the whole thing. I go on air, 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.360 I fire back next thing, I know this thing's happening. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.480 So we do like a month of promotion leading up 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.120 to it. My boss at the time, he goes to 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.400 his old high school coach, gets me the high school 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.600 wrestling outfit, and so I'm wearing the onesie, you know, 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:44.679 the yeah for wrestling, the singlet, and then I'm wearing 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:46.400 the thing that goes over your ear so you don't 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.400 get call aflower ear. We do all these promos and 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.000 then about a week before the match, one of our 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:53.800 bosses calls me in and he says, I need you 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:55.760 to sign something like what are you talking about? He 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.600 goes it basically releases us from anything if you get hurt. 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.400 And so I'm like, I'm doing this for you, guys. 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.160 Now are you are you? Are you in shape at 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.599 the time better shape than I am? No? 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:11.120 Okay, but I'm still not a world class app Okay, 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:14.120 that's for sure. So anyway we somehow get past that. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.640 So all these obstacles go down to Texas. They have 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.079 a limo waiting for me. It takes me to the track. 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.680 They've got the Hooter girls waiting out in front of 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.520 the playfast. It's incredible. And they take me right to 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.840 the winner circle to promote the match, and Jerry the 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:32.320 King is waiting there. Martha Clauson's in between. She lets 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.320 me have the mic first, and I start making fun 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.880 of his age, my grandpa, my great grandpa, watch you 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:39.800 and I can't wait, and I started naming all the 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.360 time zones. So if you're in the Pacific time zone, 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.480 Central Mountain time Eastern, tune in and watch this match. Whatever. 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.680 So now it's his turn, and he grabs the mic 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.440 and he's and he takes his finger and he goes, 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.040 you got pretty nice teeth for a beaver. And then 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.160 he takes his finger and he and he pokes it 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.640 in my chest and and it must have backed me 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.079 up like six inches. And I looked at our producer 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.440 and I go, this is real, Like I don't know, 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:09.960 I've never wrestled in my life. This is real, and 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.280 so he goes, you better stop you're talking unless you 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.360 want to see those chicklets rolling around on the ground. 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.280 So anyway, I eventually wrestled him that night. He put 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.800 me in the pile driver. I survived the pile driver, 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.560 barely got out of the match. And the way I 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.040 look at it is Andy Kaufman wrestled Jerry the King Lawler, 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.760 the man in the So many people have been in 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.000 the ring with Jerry the King Lawler, and I didn't 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.480 realize how big his legend was until I wrestled him. 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.920 And now everywhere I go people talk about it. Are 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:41.679 fans of the King. And that night that was kind 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.280 of the cool part. When I walked out, the crowd 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.960 was two thousand percent lollar. They just wanted to see 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.920 me absolutely destroyed, and they got what they want. They 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.800 started chat And now I think they don't allow the 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:53.320 pile driver. 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:54.120 Oh probably not. 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.760 Yeah, it's illegal now, but that's crazy. When I was growing, 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.400 I grew I love wrestling. So Jerry Lawler the name, 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.320 Oh gee, yeah, back back in the day. But we 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.920 should probably get back to the races. Oh think a 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:06.679 boss is gonna punch us and we don't get back 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.400 to the race, but no, I'm excited, so I was 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:10.200 told not to. 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:11.760 We're doing this on Friday. 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.880 Obviously, we want to promote what's going up on Saturday 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.040 because that's when people can come out and hang out. 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:20.160 But today I was told the juvenile races, that's like 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.000 to compare it to another sport, like the Future Stars. 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:24.440 Like, yes, the horses today. 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.880 They all start weekend, like we'll see nex rookies next 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.160 Like when I watched the Kentucky Derby next year and 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.880 all that horses that race today, you could see them 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:32.320 next year. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.080 What can you give me some names here? Today? 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.040 Well, Fierceness ran a really good race and took the 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.160 signature race, the race that was supposed to from the 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.240 beginning of the Breeders Cup. Because it's changed a lot. 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:44.960 It used to not be two days. It's not two days. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.320 So they moved the two year olds the youngest horses 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.080 to the Friday with the Future Stars Friday, as you mentioned, 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.560 But the signature race was always the fan Dual Breeders 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.400 Cup Juvenile, so that was two year old colts who 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.480 next year could ask three year olds get on the 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.160 road to the Kentucky Derby and all it's history. Only 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.680 two horses have gone from winning that race to go 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.120 on I winning the Kentucky Derby and their streets scentse 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.440 and Niquist. I just think some of it is, you know, 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.160 our sport has changed, and it seems like horses who 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.200 get started later in their career the beginning of the 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:17.600 three year old season, some sometimes have an advantage because 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.600 they're fresh horses. But I think the field that ran 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:24.960 this year has enough depth. The winner, Fierceness, owned by Micropoli, 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.680 trained by Todd Pletcher, will be put on the fast track, 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:29.640 probably through the Florida Derby and his three year old 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.120 season to get to the Kentucky Derby. So yeah, when 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.240 they say future stars Friday, it's not just a marketing phrase. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.080 A lot of these horses are going to go on 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:38.320 and do great things next year. 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:39.640 Very very cool. 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.640 And as far as the Saturday, everyone knows the main event, 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.400 but there's races all day here and so if you're 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.880 play if something's coming, I meanming out what what what do. 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.080 We need to know about? Like the other than the 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:51.720 main we'll get to the main event, but other than. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.320 The main would you think less of me if I 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.320 told you that in My whole day depended on what 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.160 happened at Aqueduct today. 0:15:58.080 --> 0:15:58.240 There. 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:03.200 I love that you're my kind of guy, and I 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.520 asked thousands of miles away. 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:07.560 So that's the thing. So today, for an example, they 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.840 had ten races. Five of them were Breeders Cup races, 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.480 championship races. Yeah, but the first Breeders Cup race was 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.480 until the fifth. So I asked my colleague Dave Weaver, 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.520 have you ever been broke before we got to the winds? Yeah, 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:21.120 lots of times. So tomorrow, the first race is at 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.600 ten ten am local time. They've got twelve races overall, 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.240 but nine of them out of the twelve are Breeders 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.280 Cup championship races. Tomorrow is going to be wild. You 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.800 made a great analogy calling at the Super Bowl, but 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.440 essentially with fourteen championship races, it's fourteen super Bowls in 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.200 two days. Awesome, And tomorrow's the biggest day by far. 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:39.680 Yeah. 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.720 And then I was leading up to the main event 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:46.800 and I saw Bob Baffert's name is yeah, the favorite. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:48.240 How is now? 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.440 He's like I've interviewed Bob a few times over the years, 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.440 but in the business, you know, you talked to some 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.960 peopleho are casual as all you know, he's like kind 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:57.440 of a villainous type guy. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.920 Is he's the New York Yankees. Yeah, always have enough money. 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.280 They can out spend everybody, but they don't always win. 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:07.280 And that just happened in the Breeders Cup Juvenile today. 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:11.040 He had three horses, big purchase prices. He's got a 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.879 horse running the last race today. That is, it's not 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.360 a stakes race. That was purchased for three point two 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:20.560 million dollars. Three point two million dollars and the horse 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.399 is not running in a stakes race. So you know, 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.359 just because you spend a lot of money, it doesn't 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.159 mean you're going to get a winner at the top level. 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.160 But Baffert's barn, you go down the shed row, one 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:35.280 side of his barn is more expensive than someone's three barns. 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:39.280 So I assume because of his reputation, Like if you're like, 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.680 you know, king of Dubai or the Middle East, you 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:43.400 you contact. 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:44.879