WEBVTT - Bromance with T.J. Rives 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.200 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.439 hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:29.560 with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:31.920 We are back at it on a Friday. It's the 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:36.480 Fifth Hour with Ben Maller. Hey, that's me. Because four 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.400 hours a night are not enough. We do this eight 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:45.400 days a week from the Mallard Podcast studios deep at 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.880 a secret location in the north Woods. And we thank 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:51.880 you for spending some time with us and finding the podcast. 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.120 If you know somebody that might enjoy the nonsense that 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.880 we do in the Fifth Hour, let them know. Get 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.720 the word out, word of mouth advertising. That is the 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:04.679 only advertising budget we have on this podcast. You will 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.960 not see a billboard at all. There will be no 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:12.399 commercials for the Fifth Hour Podcast, no TV commercial campaign, 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:16.240 none of that, no Internet campaign. All we have is 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:21.680 listener helping listener, growing the audience. And you have obviously 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:23.920 found the podcast and for that. We are grateful. We 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.800 are excited. I'm excited to talk to this guy. Just 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.759 met him for the first time. I've known this gentleman 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.520 for many, many years, over a decade I have known 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:38.040 of this person. He is a broadcaster for the Tampa 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.399 Bay Buccaneers. He works the sidelines, he does the pregame. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.000 He is the host of the official Nothing But Bucks 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:49.120 podcast on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers website and also there 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.120 their app as well. He's also a college football broadcast 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.840 or at Compass Media Networks. He is part of the 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.440 Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. Who is he? That would 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:04.040 be none there? Then t J Reeves joining us on 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:08.280 the horn from his home in Tampa. And before we 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.960 look at TJ, welcome in. Let us let us start 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.840 with the Buck game against the Rams, a game we 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:20.680 were both at. What is your initial impression of SOFI Stadium? 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.880 First of all, it is fantastic to be with v 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.680 Ben Mallor. We should let we should pull the curtain 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.200 back just a little bit. We should let the audience 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.120 in on a couple of things. You and I have 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.320 done a bunch of projects together, a bunch of co 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.760 hosting on Fox Sports Radio, a bunch of times that 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.280 we have talked off the year. We had never met 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:45.160 in person. However, reunited and it feels so good. At 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.600 SOFI Stadium, you and I finally hooked up in person. 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:52.160 It was great to see you. I feel like I've 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.320 known you for like fifteen years, but it was great 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.400 to see you. Uh. And the only thing that I 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:01.560 can say about Sophi and that comp what is wow. 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:06.079 It is so expansive, so massive, so spread out. I mean, 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.280 then we started after we finally got parked Sunday morning, 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.600 we finally started walking and I thought we were gonna 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:13.960 have to have a short put guide that help us 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.919 get to the complex to the Boot, but we did 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:22.200 get there. It's an amazing five billion dollar property. The 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.959 stadium is unreal. They'll have the Super Bowl later in 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.920 the year. And big kudos to Big Ben because on 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.800 Buccaneers Radio, with what we do broadcasting the Tampa Bay 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.720 Buccaneer games, we were trying to get the Hall of Famer, 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:39.000 mean Jene dekker Hoff from the complex, the expansive parking lot, 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.800 into the stadium and into the boot. Who saved the day? 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.920 Who was Superman? But Big Ben, because you found Jean 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.240 Decker Hall before we did that helped him get to 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.800 Tampa Bay Buccaneers radio. So you were a hero before 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.960 the game ever began. Well, DJ, listen, thank you, and 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.040 it was it was great meeting you. It is odd, 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.600 you know this radio thing and we've done stuff together 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.360 over the years and I've never actually met you in person. 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.640 Through the magic of broadcasting, we've always had this this 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:08.240 back and forth. But yeah, so I I were trying 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.320 to connect and you have a lot of responsibilities. You 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.120 are a broadcaster for the team, and you do a 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.520 lot of the pregame stuff, and you have different times 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:16.080 you have to be on and I, you know, I 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.480 was there as a media guy, but I was mostly 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.400 just checking out the stadium, trying to get the vibeh place. 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:22.960 But I didn't want to meet you. And I remember 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.919 last time the Bucks were in town at the Coliseum, 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:27.920 I tried to go to the game at the last 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.599 minute to see you there when Jameis Winston was still 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:35.200 the quarterback and I got denied, and so I the 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.160 RAMS would not allow me possible. Do the legend that 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.880 you are of the Fox Sports radio overnight airways based 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.839 in Los Angeles, How did the Rams say no to 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.800 Ben Mallard. I can't foundom that. I'm glad they said 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.320 yes to you though for Sunday and we could see 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:54.880 each other. Well yeah, and it was one of the 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.440 life's great great mysteries. They have a massive press box 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.120 too at the new stadium in so Far So and look, 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:02.839 I've never been there, so there's a lot of room 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.680 and I was able to go. And we were trying 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.720 to work out the schedule logistically because I didn't want 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.920 to interfere. You're you're they're doing the broadcast back to Tampa, 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.000 and I didn't want a message so any but I 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.560 wanted to check out the stadium and I had seen 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.080 the RAM sent out a message saying, you know, before 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.880 the game, you have pregame field access, and I'm like, well, 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:21.640 I gotta check it out. I mean, I gotta take 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.919 advantage of that. So I went down on the sidelines 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.040 and kind of was soaking everything in trying to get 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.000 the vibe. And it was there's a buzz in the 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.440 in the stadium with the Bucks that after glow of 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.400 the Super Bowl and with Tom Brady and all that 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.000 playing the Rams. It was a big deal. So anyway, um, 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.839 we had agreed on a time. So I'm I'm making 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:45.200 my way up back through the bowels of Sofi Stadium. 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.240 I have no idea where I'm going. I've never been 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:51.280 there before. And so I finally find the right elevator. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.160 I'm going up and next to me there's this this 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.799 older gentleman and a couple other people in the elevator. 0:05:57.880 --> 0:05:59.280 And I don't think anything of it, and I usually 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.839 donna pay an attendin So I'm in the elevator and 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:06.400 then the gentleman, the older gentleman asked where the Bucks 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:11.840 radio booth is and and so so t J. At 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.479 that moment, you know, I have here's another example, like, 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.600 I've never met Jean Deckerhoff in my life. I've heard 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:20.960 him call, you know, back when Florida State had the 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:24.839 Great Teams, Uh, Jean Decker have a legend with the 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.200 Seminoles and obviously with the Buccaneers over the years. And 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:31.400 so I had this Eureka moment where I recognized his 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.240 voice and I was like, wait a minute. And then 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.080 I put two of you together. I'm like, well, I'm 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.000 walking to where I think the Buck's booth is because 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.800 that's where t J is and so I I did 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:43.480 something which is very tough for me. T G. I'm 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.080 an introvert, and I introduced myself to jean He was 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.160 very nice and I told him I was gonna I 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.440 dropped your name, of course, and he's, oh, yeah, yeah, 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.919 he knew you and obviously worked on the broadcast and 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.640 so and then and then I immediately called you t 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:00.160 J and say, hey, I guess who I found and 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.839 uh and on our errand just for the audience here 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.279 on the podcast, we've been trying to find Jeane for 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:09.400 ten minutes, fifteen minutes. We can't find him. But Big Ben, 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.240 the biggest of Shopper Guides, has found Jeanne to get 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:16.040 him to the radio booth. Again. You get the save 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.080 of the day for that to get him where he 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.840 needed to be. So you're calling me and you're saying, hey, 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.000 I'm coming to you, and I've got Jane Decker off 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:24.840 with and I'm looking at our radio boss going okay, 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.400 Gene is good. He's on the way, he's coming, he's 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.640 got an escort. So it was fantastic that you were 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.000 able to do that. The other thing that I will 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.960 share there was a slight disappointment for me as the 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.400 game went on and the l A RAMS video production 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.480 crew continue to show all of the celebrities, all of 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:46.920 the A listers from Lebron to Mike Tyson to the 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:51.080 crew of Ted Lasso to Larry David uh dr Dre 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.120 who's back to back to help and was at the 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.680 RAMS game? Where was the celebrity sighting shot of Ben 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.200 Mallor in that game? It's so fast, toy? How how 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:03.640 did they neglect to publicize that one of the A listeners, 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.720 the man that that Jane to our radio booth, the 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.760 man with the velbo Ropes card. They didn't show you once. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:13.240 I was disappointed that you weren't hopknopping with Magic Johnson 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.120 and and some of those other actresses. They were showing 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.480 as they panned around the crowd and kept showing that 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.880 during the commercials. Big then yeah, clearly in oversight, a 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.560 bad job by the people at the at Sofi Stadium. 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.600 Did you notice t J now he let me ask 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.600 you this. Now you're you're walking down You had to 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.800 walk through the same tunnels I had to walk through 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.200 to get to the field at Sofi Stadium. Did you 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.200 see all the v I P parking underneath the stadium. Yes, 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.600 that that was I I've not been around you've you've 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.679 traveled the NFL circuit. Is that normal? Now? Do they 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.240 have that in most of these new stadium Not common, 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.679 but at a lot of these bigger ones like Jerry's 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.600 World at a T and T stadium, And I'm trying 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.720 to think there's one or one or two others at 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.400 the new ones where yes, Like for example, at the 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.320 new Soldier Field in chicag though, the player parking is 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:06.079 under the stadium for the Bears players, So in other words, 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.400 you're outside of a visiting locker room, you're in the 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.560 tunnels trying to get to the media press conference room, 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.280 and you might get run over by a Chicago Bear 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.840 who's trying to leave in their vehicle because the party 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:22.080 under the stadium. And kind of similarly in Dallas, Uh, 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.800 they have a fleet of vehicles under there. So yes, 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.520 I did see what you were talking about and that 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.360 and there's so much room underneath and around here for 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:35.160 the audience that yes, that is something that some teams 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.720 take advantage of. But it's still impressive because you've got 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:42.240 all these high end SUVs, limousines, different things that are 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.480 that are sitting there and you're thinking, am I at 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.680 a party? And that's one thing that are people on 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.960 the trip, not just from a broadcasting standpoint, but buccaneer 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.800 fans have related to me they can't get over all 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:58.000 of the nightclub asque atmosphere, different different little venues they 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.960 had in and around that property. Beside it's the football 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.000 game within the battle of the stadium or within the 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.560 upper bowl of the stadium. You had a real nightclub 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.880 type field in l A. Glitz Field. I mean, they 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:12.439 have definitely gone all out with the design of that stadium. Gun. Yeah, no, 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:14.719 it was crazy. And you know, t J, I'm I'm 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:16.880 a bit of a cynic and I even for me, 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.040 I was like, I didn't expect much. I'd seen it 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.200 on television and I was like, I could not believe 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.559 every every turn I took at so Fi Cinema and 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.400 I can't believe this. This is this is especially after 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.480 being at the Colisseum in l A, which you've been 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.680 at a few times doing Guys, and what it dumped 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.839 that place is uh in in comparison, I know this 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.199 history at the Colisseum because the first Super Bowl was 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.359 there and all that, but it's it's my goodness, It's unbelievable. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.880 What's what's going on there? All the traffic. I you're 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:45.720 fortunately because you had to do the post game stuff, 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:47.680 but you did have to make the flight, you know. 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.360 Oh no, oh no oh, Probably you left. You left 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.360 later the game after the Buccaneers probably wiped out. Yeah, 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.439 with with sun leading, we noticed people had begun to 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.679 leave late in the fourth quarter of the game. Was 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.800 to I did to bou up the traffic. We left, 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:07.600 being probably about an hour and fifteen minutes after the game. 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.600 We're off the aar um and we had a long 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.400 time before our nighttime red eye flight back to Tampa 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.040 in the middle of the night in the Eastern time zone, 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.000 flying commercially there out of l a X. It still 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.640 took us close to an hour, my friend to get 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.280 to the car, get out of the parking lot, get 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:30.160 around the complex, and get towards l a X. We 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.960 we were two hours after the game, still sitting in 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.679 the traffic, and I said to my colleagues, I said, hey, 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.240 welcome to big city Los Angeles. Huge crowd. You know 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.240 a lot of people left that game and probably went 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.120 entail get it a little bit outside after it's over. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:45.880 With and then get in their car and the and 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:50.040 the the traffic is everywhere, so uh that that is 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.080 something that but yes, I mean you'll take that because 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.440 it's better. It's better than having a team that's not 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.760 interesting in a half full stadium. And then the wild 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:02.120 and ironic card I kept it to our audience is 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.080 they had no fans at any of the games last year. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.680 There was never a problem obviously getting in or out 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.120 of broadcast the game last year, and no one was there, 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.720 and so you go from net extreme of no one there, 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.679 and that was a loud Rockets environment that clearly bothered 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.680 the Buccaneers. Last week's end would being able to see 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.040 you change the playing fall starts, the crowds all over you. 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.280 It was definitely advantage for the ramp. So that was 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.600 that was some scene right down to the traffic trying 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.440 to get out of there. Then yeah, yeah, And that's 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.760 the one if I if I have one complaint, that 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.520 would be it. I I don't know who the civic 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.840 planners are in Inglewood, but it's gonna be even crazier 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.839 t J because the Clippers are building an arena right 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.240 across the street from there, and I imagine There'll be 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.680 some Sundays where the Clippers are playing in the Rams 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.400 and the Charges are playing, And I can't imagine adding 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:53.520 another twenty thousand people to the seventy thousand that we're leaving. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:57.160 Now now clarified for me, are they gonna leave the 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.760 Forum standing? And again for the audience that we're talking 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.480 at the Los Angeles But I was fascinated to be 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.920 around the Forum, having watched all of those Laker games 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.400 in the eighties, especially against the Celtics that never having 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:11.959 been around that building, much less in that building. Are 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:13.920 they gonna leave that standing? Because I know they have 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.160 concerts there and that kind of stuff. Are they tearing 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.040 that down to build the Clipper building? We weren't sure 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.000 about that. Yeah, So as I understand it, the plan 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.920 is to keep the Forum as a concert venue. Uh. 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.280 And I don't know how much demand there's going to 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.280 be for that with the new arena right across the street. 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.920 But Steve Bomber, the famous story, the owner of the 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:37.520 Clippers worth nine billion dollars with the bet t J 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.640 he was he wanted to build the arena in Inglewood, 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.480 and he had talked to the city of Englewood. But 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.040 as I heard the story. The people the Forum sued 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.400 that they were owned by the Knicks owner James Dolan, 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.559 and there was a lawsuit. So Steve Bomber just bought 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.240 the Forum to end the lawsuit and to build the arena, 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.040 to get that underway. And I believe that the plan 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.960 is to keep the Forum all you know, how plans changed. 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.600 I would hate to see that place turned down. There's 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.079 a lot of history there. That's one of the problems 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.920 I have t J with a lot of like American sports, 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.000 Like you go to Europe, not that I've been, but 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.240 I've seen on the internet, and they have these old 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:15.600 soccer the pitches that are hundred two hundred years old 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.600 in some cases, and they don't tear him down, they 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:20.920 just keep him around. But here, I mean stadium. You 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.400 know how it goes. The stadium gets five years old 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.200 and this time to take the wrecking ball o tear. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.400 We have rare exceptions with what you're saying, like Finlay 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.160 Park or Wrigley Field that are still there seventy five 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.920 hundred years later. But they tore down the Yankee Stadium. 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:40.120 To your point, they they tore down old Dallas Cowboys 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:44.119 Texas Stadium the same with Three Rivers Stadium for the Steelers. 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.960 You're mentioning the l A Colosseum, but it's been iconic 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:50.400 for like seventy five, what eight ninety years, going back 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.680 to the middle of last century in Los Angeles. So 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.400 maybe we'll just getting old. Maybe we're just being get 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.080 off my long guy. I'm not sure, but I I 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.320 kind of agree with you. But it was it was neat. 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.040 We were trying to find one of the parking lots, 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.360 which again it took us about fifteen or twenty minutes 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:08.880 to find the parking lot that we were supposed to 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.640 be in, so far right there by the Forum, and 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.320 I said to the people in the car, I'm like, 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.800 that's where Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul Jabbar are ruled 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.520 today in the eighties. That is. I'm not a Laker fan, 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.000 but I've never been I'd never been on that property. 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:23.360 I've never been inside of it. It was neat to 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.080 see that Sunday morning, just for a second. Yeah, no, listen, 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.840 I had not been in that area and I not 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.120 hadn't any reason to be in Inglewood for for some time. 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.600 And so but when I first start I'm very lucky TJ. 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:36.720 Because when I first started in a station in San 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.880 Diego and I started covering the l A sports scene, 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.760 that was before Staples Center. So I'm I'm, I am old, 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.880 I guess and uh. And so that the Lakers are 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.800 still playing at the Forum, the Kings were there, the 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.840 Clippers worth the l a Sports arena which has been 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.480 torn down, which is I have no problem with that. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.720 There's a soccer stadium there now. But I do. And 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.680 I remember when I was when I started going to 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.000 the Forum. And I'm not, obviously I'm a Laker, hey, 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.280 t J. I take shots at the Lakers all the time, 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.240 but still walking through that arena, in the bowels of 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.960 that arena, it was pretty crazy thinking about all the 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.320 legends of basketball that had played there, and both for 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.160 the Lakers and against the Lakers. So I think that's 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.080 gonna stick around. But you know, you know how these 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.160 things are. If they feel like that, you will, if 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.360 you have any input, if you have any influence, which 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.440 you obviously do, Yeah, you're gonna say the floor must stay, 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.080 the four must stay. But I don't know what they're consulting, 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.440 Big band, No, No, I don't know, They're not I 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:33.960 have I have no I have no power. I have 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.560 no power. You know it's funny, I on on fs 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.840 are They ran a promo. I talked about this in 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:40.760 the year the other night, but they ran a promo 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.520 of Colin Coward, my colleague there, and and he was 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.760 talking about some story that he was a party with 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:50.640 Stan Cronkey, the the Rams owner, and I'm thinking, like, 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.080 you know, we work at the same place I am. 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.160 I'm hanging out with the hot dog vendors, you know, 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.640 That's who I'm hanging out with. And he's hanging out 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:02.000 with the collas, hanging out with Clunky. Meanwhile, Benny is 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:06.040 trying to help Jane Decker Hall fight. What is wrong 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:11.040 with this picture? Yes, yes, a slight, slight dichotomy between 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:14.160 the two of us. But but you've been doing these 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:16.000 Buck games for a while, t J. You mentioned that 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.280 this year is different because of the COVID stuff. You've 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.360 gotta travel on your own, and how big and how 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.560 big and inconvenience is that, and and how difficult is 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:28.359 it to line up the flight schedule with the Buccaneers schedule, 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.479 especially now because the Bucks are one of the glamour teams. 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:32.960 So you guys are gonna be playing a lot of 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.320 prime time games with Brady and all that, and so 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.080 you're gonna have to really work to get out of 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.000 certain cities. I would think, yes, you are correct on 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.119 all of those fronts. And first let me say at 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.400 the outset, I appreciate the question. These are first world problems. 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.359 I mean, we get to broadcast these games and whatever 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.600 it takes to get there. I'm not gonna go so 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.119 far on the model on the Mallar podcast here on 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.280 the fifth hour to say that I would walk to 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.280 do it. I would not walk to do these dames 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.280 one way to walk to Los Angeles or only wing 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.680 to walk to Foxboro, Massachusetts from Tampa. But being able 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.680 to travel and get there is a minor thing when 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.920 you're talking about the magnitude of playing the Rams in 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.520 l a or playing the Patriots in Foxboro, which we're 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.439 talking more about in a second. So in our world, 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.800 we're now having to do that commercially like a lot 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.119 of the other media has always done. We're not on 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.480 the team plane for the COVID guidelines and the COVID 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.800 reasons they've restricted how many people can be on the 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:29.360 plane because of social distancing. So For example, we were 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.280 just like everybody else at L a X the other night, 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.400 trying to get out of Los Angeles late night red 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.639 eye flights. There were a ton, a ton of buccaneer 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:41.000 fans that were in the Delta terminal at l a 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:42.920 X because they had come to the game. I mean 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.919 by a ton, I'm talking about easily a thousand of 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.720 them that we're walking around everywhere trying to get on 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.760 those flights because Delta had in this case free plug 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.080 for them on the Malar podcast. They had six or 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:57.200 seven flights Sunday night that we're going either to Dallas 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.439 or Atlanta or even the NonStop we were on Tampa 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:01.720 in the middle of the night that could get you 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:03.800 out of Los Angeles, gets you back to Tampa and 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.400 get you back to work, for example, if you're going 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.280 back to work on Monday. So that's all world now, 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.479 and so to fast forward for later this weekend, I 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.640 am actually getting the privilege of working the national broadcasts 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.800 of Oldness and Alabama on Compass Media, one of the 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:22.919 national outlets it does college football. I'm working down on 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:26.640 the radio uh Saturday with Steve Burline, the former Calgary, 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.160 the former in l A Raider, the former Carolina Panther, 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:31.960 the former Notre Dame and quarterback. So Burlie and I 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.480 are working on Miss Alabama on the radio Saturday afternoon. 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:39.640 Within Sunday morning, I've got to make my way to Foxboro, Massachusetts, 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.679 flying commercially out of Alabama through Atlanta and up to Foxboro. 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:45.520 And it's a Sunday night game, so that would be 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:47.840 easier with the time to be able to get there. 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.840 But just like all the other business travelers and commuters, 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.159 you do the game Sunday night, it should be a 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.480