Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House of
Speaker 1: hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.
Speaker 1: We are back at it on a Friday. It's the
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour with Ben Maller. Hey, that's me. Because four
Speaker 1: hours a night are not enough. We do this eight
Speaker 1: days a week from the Mallard Podcast studios deep at
Speaker 1: a secret location in the north Woods. And we thank
Speaker 1: you for spending some time with us and finding the podcast.
Speaker 1: If you know somebody that might enjoy the nonsense that
Speaker 1: we do in the Fifth Hour, let them know. Get
Speaker 1: the word out, word of mouth advertising. That is the
Speaker 1: only advertising budget we have on this podcast. You will
Speaker 1: not see a billboard at all. There will be no
Speaker 1: commercials for the Fifth Hour Podcast, no TV commercial campaign,
Speaker 1: none of that, no Internet campaign. All we have is
Speaker 1: listener helping listener, growing the audience. And you have obviously
Speaker 1: found the podcast and for that. We are grateful. We
Speaker 1: are excited. I'm excited to talk to this guy. Just
Speaker 1: met him for the first time. I've known this gentleman
Speaker 1: for many, many years, over a decade I have known
Speaker 1: of this person. He is a broadcaster for the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. He works the sidelines, he does the pregame.
Speaker 1: He is the host of the official Nothing But Bucks
Speaker 1: podcast on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers website and also there
Speaker 1: their app as well. He's also a college football broadcast
Speaker 1: or at Compass Media Networks. He is part of the
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. Who is he? That would
Speaker 1: be none there? Then t J Reeves joining us on
Speaker 1: the horn from his home in Tampa. And before we
Speaker 1: look at TJ, welcome in. Let us let us start
Speaker 1: with the Buck game against the Rams, a game we
Speaker 1: were both at. What is your initial impression of SOFI Stadium?
Speaker 1: First of all, it is fantastic to be with v
Speaker 1: Ben Mallor. We should let we should pull the curtain
Speaker 1: back just a little bit. We should let the audience
Speaker 1: in on a couple of things. You and I have
Speaker 1: done a bunch of projects together, a bunch of co
Speaker 1: hosting on Fox Sports Radio, a bunch of times that
Speaker 1: we have talked off the year. We had never met
Speaker 1: in person. However, reunited and it feels so good. At
Speaker 1: SOFI Stadium, you and I finally hooked up in person.
Speaker 1: It was great to see you. I feel like I've
Speaker 1: known you for like fifteen years, but it was great
Speaker 1: to see you. Uh. And the only thing that I
Speaker 1: can say about Sophi and that comp what is wow.
Speaker 1: It is so expansive, so massive, so spread out. I mean,
Speaker 1: then we started after we finally got parked Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: we finally started walking and I thought we were gonna
Speaker 1: have to have a short put guide that help us
Speaker 1: get to the complex to the Boot, but we did
Speaker 1: get there. It's an amazing five billion dollar property. The
Speaker 1: stadium is unreal. They'll have the Super Bowl later in
Speaker 1: the year. And big kudos to Big Ben because on
Speaker 1: Buccaneers Radio, with what we do broadcasting the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Buccaneer games, we were trying to get the Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: mean Jene dekker Hoff from the complex, the expansive parking lot,
Speaker 1: into the stadium and into the boot. Who saved the day?
Speaker 1: Who was Superman? But Big Ben, because you found Jean
Speaker 1: Decker Hall before we did that helped him get to
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers radio. So you were a hero before
Speaker 1: the game ever began. Well, DJ, listen, thank you, and
Speaker 1: it was it was great meeting you. It is odd,
Speaker 1: you know this radio thing and we've done stuff together
Speaker 1: over the years and I've never actually met you in person.
Speaker 1: Through the magic of broadcasting, we've always had this this
Speaker 1: back and forth. But yeah, so I I were trying
Speaker 1: to connect and you have a lot of responsibilities. You
Speaker 1: are a broadcaster for the team, and you do a
Speaker 1: lot of the pregame stuff, and you have different times
Speaker 1: you have to be on and I, you know, I
Speaker 1: was there as a media guy, but I was mostly
Speaker 1: just checking out the stadium, trying to get the vibeh place.
Speaker 1: But I didn't want to meet you. And I remember
Speaker 1: last time the Bucks were in town at the Coliseum,
Speaker 1: I tried to go to the game at the last
Speaker 1: minute to see you there when Jameis Winston was still
Speaker 1: the quarterback and I got denied, and so I the
Speaker 1: RAMS would not allow me possible. Do the legend that
Speaker 1: you are of the Fox Sports radio overnight airways based
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, How did the Rams say no to
Speaker 1: Ben Mallard. I can't foundom that. I'm glad they said
Speaker 1: yes to you though for Sunday and we could see
Speaker 1: each other. Well yeah, and it was one of the
Speaker 1: life's great great mysteries. They have a massive press box
Speaker 1: too at the new stadium in so Far So and look,
Speaker 1: I've never been there, so there's a lot of room
Speaker 1: and I was able to go. And we were trying
Speaker 1: to work out the schedule logistically because I didn't want
Speaker 1: to interfere. You're you're they're doing the broadcast back to Tampa,
Speaker 1: and I didn't want a message so any but I
Speaker 1: wanted to check out the stadium and I had seen
Speaker 1: the RAM sent out a message saying, you know, before
Speaker 1: the game, you have pregame field access, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I gotta check it out. I mean, I gotta take
Speaker 1: advantage of that. So I went down on the sidelines
Speaker 1: and kind of was soaking everything in trying to get
Speaker 1: the vibe. And it was there's a buzz in the
Speaker 1: in the stadium with the Bucks that after glow of
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and with Tom Brady and all that
Speaker 1: playing the Rams. It was a big deal. So anyway, um,
Speaker 1: we had agreed on a time. So I'm I'm making
Speaker 1: my way up back through the bowels of Sofi Stadium.
Speaker 1: I have no idea where I'm going. I've never been
Speaker 1: there before. And so I finally find the right elevator.
Speaker 1: I'm going up and next to me there's this this
Speaker 1: older gentleman and a couple other people in the elevator.
Speaker 1: And I don't think anything of it, and I usually
Speaker 1: donna pay an attendin So I'm in the elevator and
Speaker 1: then the gentleman, the older gentleman asked where the Bucks
Speaker 1: radio booth is and and so so t J. At
Speaker 1: that moment, you know, I have here's another example, like,
Speaker 1: I've never met Jean Deckerhoff in my life. I've heard
Speaker 1: him call, you know, back when Florida State had the
Speaker 1: Great Teams, Uh, Jean Decker have a legend with the
Speaker 1: Seminoles and obviously with the Buccaneers over the years. And
Speaker 1: so I had this Eureka moment where I recognized his
Speaker 1: voice and I was like, wait a minute. And then
Speaker 1: I put two of you together. I'm like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: walking to where I think the Buck's booth is because
Speaker 1: that's where t J is and so I I did
Speaker 1: something which is very tough for me. T G. I'm
Speaker 1: an introvert, and I introduced myself to jean He was
Speaker 1: very nice and I told him I was gonna I
Speaker 1: dropped your name, of course, and he's, oh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he knew you and obviously worked on the broadcast and
Speaker 1: so and then and then I immediately called you t
Speaker 1: J and say, hey, I guess who I found and
Speaker 1: uh and on our errand just for the audience here
Speaker 1: on the podcast, we've been trying to find Jeane for
Speaker 1: ten minutes, fifteen minutes. We can't find him. But Big Ben,
Speaker 1: the biggest of Shopper Guides, has found Jeanne to get
Speaker 1: him to the radio booth. Again. You get the save
Speaker 1: of the day for that to get him where he
Speaker 1: needed to be. So you're calling me and you're saying, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm coming to you, and I've got Jane Decker off
Speaker 1: with and I'm looking at our radio boss going okay,
Speaker 1: Gene is good. He's on the way, he's coming, he's
Speaker 1: got an escort. So it was fantastic that you were
Speaker 1: able to do that. The other thing that I will
Speaker 1: share there was a slight disappointment for me as the
Speaker 1: game went on and the l A RAMS video production
Speaker 1: crew continue to show all of the celebrities, all of
Speaker 1: the A listers from Lebron to Mike Tyson to the
Speaker 1: crew of Ted Lasso to Larry David uh dr Dre
Speaker 1: who's back to back to help and was at the
Speaker 1: RAMS game? Where was the celebrity sighting shot of Ben
Speaker 1: Mallor in that game? It's so fast, toy? How how
Speaker 1: did they neglect to publicize that one of the A listeners,
Speaker 1: the man that that Jane to our radio booth, the
Speaker 1: man with the velbo Ropes card. They didn't show you once.
Speaker 1: I was disappointed that you weren't hopknopping with Magic Johnson
Speaker 1: and and some of those other actresses. They were showing
Speaker 1: as they panned around the crowd and kept showing that
Speaker 1: during the commercials. Big then yeah, clearly in oversight, a
Speaker 1: bad job by the people at the at Sofi Stadium.
Speaker 1: Did you notice t J now he let me ask
Speaker 1: you this. Now you're you're walking down You had to
Speaker 1: walk through the same tunnels I had to walk through
Speaker 1: to get to the field at Sofi Stadium. Did you
Speaker 1: see all the v I P parking underneath the stadium. Yes,
Speaker 1: that that was I I've not been around you've you've
Speaker 1: traveled the NFL circuit. Is that normal? Now? Do they
Speaker 1: have that in most of these new stadium Not common,
Speaker 1: but at a lot of these bigger ones like Jerry's
Speaker 1: World at a T and T stadium, And I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think there's one or one or two others at
Speaker 1: the new ones where yes, Like for example, at the
Speaker 1: new Soldier Field in chicag though, the player parking is
Speaker 1: under the stadium for the Bears players, So in other words,
Speaker 1: you're outside of a visiting locker room, you're in the
Speaker 1: tunnels trying to get to the media press conference room,
Speaker 1: and you might get run over by a Chicago Bear
Speaker 1: who's trying to leave in their vehicle because the party
Speaker 1: under the stadium. And kind of similarly in Dallas, Uh,
Speaker 1: they have a fleet of vehicles under there. So yes,
Speaker 1: I did see what you were talking about and that
Speaker 1: and there's so much room underneath and around here for
Speaker 1: the audience that yes, that is something that some teams
Speaker 1: take advantage of. But it's still impressive because you've got
Speaker 1: all these high end SUVs, limousines, different things that are
Speaker 1: that are sitting there and you're thinking, am I at
Speaker 1: a party? And that's one thing that are people on
Speaker 1: the trip, not just from a broadcasting standpoint, but buccaneer
Speaker 1: fans have related to me they can't get over all
Speaker 1: of the nightclub asque atmosphere, different different little venues they
Speaker 1: had in and around that property. Beside it's the football
Speaker 1: game within the battle of the stadium or within the
Speaker 1: upper bowl of the stadium. You had a real nightclub
Speaker 1: type field in l A. Glitz Field. I mean, they
Speaker 1: have definitely gone all out with the design of that stadium. Gun. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it was crazy. And you know, t J, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a bit of a cynic and I even for me,
Speaker 1: I was like, I didn't expect much. I'd seen it
Speaker 1: on television and I was like, I could not believe
Speaker 1: every every turn I took at so Fi Cinema and
Speaker 1: I can't believe this. This is this is especially after
Speaker 1: being at the Colisseum in l A, which you've been
Speaker 1: at a few times doing Guys, and what it dumped
Speaker 1: that place is uh in in comparison, I know this
Speaker 1: history at the Colisseum because the first Super Bowl was
Speaker 1: there and all that, but it's it's my goodness, It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: What's what's going on there? All the traffic. I you're
Speaker 1: fortunately because you had to do the post game stuff,
Speaker 1: but you did have to make the flight, you know.
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no oh, Probably you left. You left
Speaker 1: later the game after the Buccaneers probably wiped out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with with sun leading, we noticed people had begun to
Speaker 1: leave late in the fourth quarter of the game. Was
Speaker 1: to I did to bou up the traffic. We left,
Speaker 1: being probably about an hour and fifteen minutes after the game.
Speaker 1: We're off the aar um and we had a long
Speaker 1: time before our nighttime red eye flight back to Tampa
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night in the Eastern time zone,
Speaker 1: flying commercially there out of l a X. It still
Speaker 1: took us close to an hour, my friend to get
Speaker 1: to the car, get out of the parking lot, get
Speaker 1: around the complex, and get towards l a X. We
Speaker 1: we were two hours after the game, still sitting in
Speaker 1: the traffic, and I said to my colleagues, I said, hey,
Speaker 1: welcome to big city Los Angeles. Huge crowd. You know
Speaker 1: a lot of people left that game and probably went
Speaker 1: entail get it a little bit outside after it's over.
Speaker 1: With and then get in their car and the and
Speaker 1: the the traffic is everywhere, so uh that that is
Speaker 1: something that but yes, I mean you'll take that because
Speaker 1: it's better. It's better than having a team that's not
Speaker 1: interesting in a half full stadium. And then the wild
Speaker 1: and ironic card I kept it to our audience is
Speaker 1: they had no fans at any of the games last year.
Speaker 1: There was never a problem obviously getting in or out
Speaker 1: of broadcast the game last year, and no one was there,
Speaker 1: and so you go from net extreme of no one there,
Speaker 1: and that was a loud Rockets environment that clearly bothered
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. Last week's end would being able to see
Speaker 1: you change the playing fall starts, the crowds all over you.
Speaker 1: It was definitely advantage for the ramp. So that was
Speaker 1: that was some scene right down to the traffic trying
Speaker 1: to get out of there. Then yeah, yeah, And that's
Speaker 1: the one if I if I have one complaint, that
Speaker 1: would be it. I I don't know who the civic
Speaker 1: planners are in Inglewood, but it's gonna be even crazier
Speaker 1: t J because the Clippers are building an arena right
Speaker 1: across the street from there, and I imagine There'll be
Speaker 1: some Sundays where the Clippers are playing in the Rams
Speaker 1: and the Charges are playing, And I can't imagine adding
Speaker 1: another twenty thousand people to the seventy thousand that we're leaving.
Speaker 1: Now now clarified for me, are they gonna leave the
Speaker 1: Forum standing? And again for the audience that we're talking
Speaker 1: at the Los Angeles But I was fascinated to be
Speaker 1: around the Forum, having watched all of those Laker games
Speaker 1: in the eighties, especially against the Celtics that never having
Speaker 1: been around that building, much less in that building. Are
Speaker 1: they gonna leave that standing? Because I know they have
Speaker 1: concerts there and that kind of stuff. Are they tearing
Speaker 1: that down to build the Clipper building? We weren't sure
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, So as I understand it, the plan
Speaker 1: is to keep the Forum as a concert venue. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how much demand there's going to
Speaker 1: be for that with the new arena right across the street.
Speaker 1: But Steve Bomber, the famous story, the owner of the
Speaker 1: Clippers worth nine billion dollars with the bet t J
Speaker 1: he was he wanted to build the arena in Inglewood,
Speaker 1: and he had talked to the city of Englewood. But
Speaker 1: as I heard the story. The people the Forum sued
Speaker 1: that they were owned by the Knicks owner James Dolan,
Speaker 1: and there was a lawsuit. So Steve Bomber just bought
Speaker 1: the Forum to end the lawsuit and to build the arena,
Speaker 1: to get that underway. And I believe that the plan
Speaker 1: is to keep the Forum all you know, how plans changed.
Speaker 1: I would hate to see that place turned down. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of history there. That's one of the problems
Speaker 1: I have t J with a lot of like American sports,
Speaker 1: Like you go to Europe, not that I've been, but
Speaker 1: I've seen on the internet, and they have these old
Speaker 1: soccer the pitches that are hundred two hundred years old
Speaker 1: in some cases, and they don't tear him down, they
Speaker 1: just keep him around. But here, I mean stadium. You
Speaker 1: know how it goes. The stadium gets five years old
Speaker 1: and this time to take the wrecking ball o tear.
Speaker 1: We have rare exceptions with what you're saying, like Finlay
Speaker 1: Park or Wrigley Field that are still there seventy five
Speaker 1: hundred years later. But they tore down the Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 1: To your point, they they tore down old Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: Texas Stadium the same with Three Rivers Stadium for the Steelers.
Speaker 1: You're mentioning the l A Colosseum, but it's been iconic
Speaker 1: for like seventy five, what eight ninety years, going back
Speaker 1: to the middle of last century in Los Angeles. So
Speaker 1: maybe we'll just getting old. Maybe we're just being get
Speaker 1: off my long guy. I'm not sure, but I I
Speaker 1: kind of agree with you. But it was it was neat.
Speaker 1: We were trying to find one of the parking lots,
Speaker 1: which again it took us about fifteen or twenty minutes
Speaker 1: to find the parking lot that we were supposed to
Speaker 1: be in, so far right there by the Forum, and
Speaker 1: I said to the people in the car, I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's where Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul Jabbar are ruled
Speaker 1: today in the eighties. That is. I'm not a Laker fan,
Speaker 1: but I've never been I'd never been on that property.
Speaker 1: I've never been inside of it. It was neat to
Speaker 1: see that Sunday morning, just for a second. Yeah, no, listen,
Speaker 1: I had not been in that area and I not
Speaker 1: hadn't any reason to be in Inglewood for for some time.
Speaker 1: And so but when I first start I'm very lucky TJ.
Speaker 1: Because when I first started in a station in San
Speaker 1: Diego and I started covering the l A sports scene,
Speaker 1: that was before Staples Center. So I'm I'm, I am old,
Speaker 1: I guess and uh. And so that the Lakers are
Speaker 1: still playing at the Forum, the Kings were there, the
Speaker 1: Clippers worth the l a Sports arena which has been
Speaker 1: torn down, which is I have no problem with that.
Speaker 1: There's a soccer stadium there now. But I do. And
Speaker 1: I remember when I was when I started going to
Speaker 1: the Forum. And I'm not, obviously I'm a Laker, hey,
Speaker 1: t J. I take shots at the Lakers all the time,
Speaker 1: but still walking through that arena, in the bowels of
Speaker 1: that arena, it was pretty crazy thinking about all the
Speaker 1: legends of basketball that had played there, and both for
Speaker 1: the Lakers and against the Lakers. So I think that's
Speaker 1: gonna stick around. But you know, you know how these
Speaker 1: things are. If they feel like that, you will, if
Speaker 1: you have any input, if you have any influence, which
Speaker 1: you obviously do, Yeah, you're gonna say the floor must stay,
Speaker 1: the four must stay. But I don't know what they're consulting,
Speaker 1: Big band, No, No, I don't know, They're not I
Speaker 1: have I have no I have no power. I have
Speaker 1: no power. You know it's funny, I on on fs
Speaker 1: are They ran a promo. I talked about this in
Speaker 1: the year the other night, but they ran a promo
Speaker 1: of Colin Coward, my colleague there, and and he was
Speaker 1: talking about some story that he was a party with
Speaker 1: Stan Cronkey, the the Rams owner, and I'm thinking, like,
Speaker 1: you know, we work at the same place I am.
Speaker 1: I'm hanging out with the hot dog vendors, you know,
Speaker 1: That's who I'm hanging out with. And he's hanging out
Speaker 1: with the collas, hanging out with Clunky. Meanwhile, Benny is
Speaker 1: trying to help Jane Decker Hall fight. What is wrong
Speaker 1: with this picture? Yes, yes, a slight, slight dichotomy between
Speaker 1: the two of us. But but you've been doing these
Speaker 1: Buck games for a while, t J. You mentioned that
Speaker 1: this year is different because of the COVID stuff. You've
Speaker 1: gotta travel on your own, and how big and how
Speaker 1: big and inconvenience is that, and and how difficult is
Speaker 1: it to line up the flight schedule with the Buccaneers schedule,
Speaker 1: especially now because the Bucks are one of the glamour teams.
Speaker 1: So you guys are gonna be playing a lot of
Speaker 1: prime time games with Brady and all that, and so
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to really work to get out of
Speaker 1: certain cities. I would think, yes, you are correct on
Speaker 1: all of those fronts. And first let me say at
Speaker 1: the outset, I appreciate the question. These are first world problems.
Speaker 1: I mean, we get to broadcast these games and whatever
Speaker 1: it takes to get there. I'm not gonna go so
Speaker 1: far on the model on the Mallar podcast here on
Speaker 1: the fifth hour to say that I would walk to
Speaker 1: do it. I would not walk to do these dames
Speaker 1: one way to walk to Los Angeles or only wing
Speaker 1: to walk to Foxboro, Massachusetts from Tampa. But being able
Speaker 1: to travel and get there is a minor thing when
Speaker 1: you're talking about the magnitude of playing the Rams in
Speaker 1: l a or playing the Patriots in Foxboro, which we're
Speaker 1: talking more about in a second. So in our world,
Speaker 1: we're now having to do that commercially like a lot
Speaker 1: of the other media has always done. We're not on
Speaker 1: the team plane for the COVID guidelines and the COVID
Speaker 1: reasons they've restricted how many people can be on the
Speaker 1: plane because of social distancing. So For example, we were
Speaker 1: just like everybody else at L a X the other night,
Speaker 1: trying to get out of Los Angeles late night red
Speaker 1: eye flights. There were a ton, a ton of buccaneer
Speaker 1: fans that were in the Delta terminal at l a
Speaker 1: X because they had come to the game. I mean
Speaker 1: by a ton, I'm talking about easily a thousand of
Speaker 1: them that we're walking around everywhere trying to get on
Speaker 1: those flights because Delta had in this case free plug
Speaker 1: for them on the Malar podcast. They had six or
Speaker 1: seven flights Sunday night that we're going either to Dallas
Speaker 1: or Atlanta or even the NonStop we were on Tampa
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night that could get you
Speaker 1: out of Los Angeles, gets you back to Tampa and
Speaker 1: get you back to work, for example, if you're going
Speaker 1: back to work on Monday. So that's all world now,
Speaker 1: and so to fast forward for later this weekend, I
Speaker 1: am actually getting the privilege of working the national broadcasts
Speaker 1: of Oldness and Alabama on Compass Media, one of the
Speaker 1: national outlets it does college football. I'm working down on
Speaker 1: the radio uh Saturday with Steve Burline, the former Calgary,
Speaker 1: the former in l A Raider, the former Carolina Panther,
Speaker 1: the former Notre Dame and quarterback. So Burlie and I
Speaker 1: are working on Miss Alabama on the radio Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 1: Within Sunday morning, I've got to make my way to Foxboro, Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: flying commercially out of Alabama through Atlanta and up to Foxboro.
Speaker 1: And it's a Sunday night game, so that would be
Speaker 1: easier with the time to be able to get there.
Speaker 1: But just like all the other business travelers and commuters,
Speaker 1: you do the game Sunday night, it should be a
Speaker 1: wild uh scene in situation, but we're right back on
Speaker 1: a Monday morning flight trying to get back to Tampa
Speaker 1: to have the work name Monday and everybody get on
Speaker 1: with their lives. So yes, it is definitely different and
Speaker 1: a challenge, but they're an awful lot of people that
Speaker 1: have resumed traveling, have to travel for their career, have
Speaker 1: to travel for their broadcasting or their media career. So
Speaker 1: chalk chalk us up as those that are right there
Speaker 1: and mother, I'm trying to fight to get the good
Speaker 1: airline seat, get the aisle seat. Ben Mallard and I
Speaker 1: like and be able to get to these gids. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you had to come back right after the
Speaker 1: red eye, and right you had to put the podcast.
Speaker 1: I've read that nothing nothing but Bucks podcast. You did you?
Speaker 1: Did you even go to bed or did you just
Speaker 1: start working right? I actually slept for about an hour
Speaker 1: on the plane an hour and then got here and
Speaker 1: the first priority was get here and get my daughters.
Speaker 1: I've got thirteen year old twin daughters. Get them fully
Speaker 1: out the door, get them in the car, line for
Speaker 1: middle school, drop them off as we peeled the curtain
Speaker 1: back more. I love this on the Mallard podcast. So
Speaker 1: I get them dropped off, I get back home, I
Speaker 1: put the podcast together, and the pot cast was literally
Speaker 1: up and ready to go about probably eleven thirty am
Speaker 1: eatern time, literally about four hours after I was off
Speaker 1: the plane. So I was impressed with myself being able
Speaker 1: to get all of that done. Again, I appreciate you
Speaker 1: complimenting me off the year that you enjoyed the podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure how coherent and what I actually said.
Speaker 1: If it made sense, you tell me then that it
Speaker 1: made sense, And I appreciate the beat, the professional critique,
Speaker 1: but I'm not quite sure if I gave away, like
Speaker 1: my bank account information. What I was actually saying on
Speaker 1: the podcast, no, I hear you know it was it
Speaker 1: was good. I you you had you played the highlights
Speaker 1: of the game he had Bruce arians you you replayed
Speaker 1: the interview you had with Bruce. He gave a good
Speaker 1: description of how many Bucks fans. There were a lot
Speaker 1: of Bucks fans. I was surprised by that that number.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize there were that many Bucks fans in
Speaker 1: l A I know is the Bucks didn't do very
Speaker 1: much in the game, but there were two or three moments,
Speaker 1: especially to the TV left the left of the Bucks bench,
Speaker 1: when the Bucks scored in the first half on the
Speaker 1: Godwin touchdown run. There were probably three or four thousand
Speaker 1: buccaneer fans in the lower bowl and in that end
Speaker 1: zone level that erupted. Not not loud enough to where
Speaker 1: TV would maybe pick it up very much, but I
Speaker 1: looked around and went, wow, this is not twenty five
Speaker 1: people or a hundred people. There's easily two or three
Speaker 1: thousand or more Buccaneer fans here. But again credit to
Speaker 1: the Rams. They didn't get the Bucks or their fans
Speaker 1: much to cheer about for much of Sunday, for sure.
Speaker 1: So take me behind the scenes here, t J. What's
Speaker 1: it like dealing with Tom Brady? Are there special media
Speaker 1: rules being around Tom? And he's a sports royalty in America.
Speaker 1: He's become bigger than life here over the years. So
Speaker 1: what's it like since he showed up to town? This
Speaker 1: is why you listen to the Mallard podcast. Are you
Speaker 1: ready for this as we talk at the end of
Speaker 1: the week number three and get ready to head to
Speaker 1: this massive game with the New England Patriots. I have
Speaker 1: not had the occasion and may not have the occasion
Speaker 1: to do a one on one interview with Tom Brady
Speaker 1: as of yet. That may be stunning to the Ben
Speaker 1: mallor into the audience. In my normal duties on Buccaneers Radio,
Speaker 1: I would typically interview the quarterback before and after all
Speaker 1: of the games. I've done this in the past with
Speaker 1: the likes of Jamis Winston. You can go all the
Speaker 1: way back to other quarterbacks like Josh Freeman recently, back
Speaker 1: to Jeff Garcina, you know that name in the data,
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback that played with the forty niners and with others.
Speaker 1: Go all the way back to Brad Johnson who helped
Speaker 1: win the Buccaneers Super Bowl constantly interviewing the quarterback before
Speaker 1: and after the game. But two things. The first thing
Speaker 1: is Tom Brady does not do a lot of individual
Speaker 1: media for anybody. Never get in New England. It's not
Speaker 1: in Tampa Bay in terms of one on ones with anybody,
Speaker 1: doesn't do much of that. It's mainly on the podium
Speaker 1: UH one time during the week UH and and something
Speaker 1: after the game is usually on the podium. There's not
Speaker 1: a side interview for TV outlets, radio outlets, et cetera.
Speaker 1: So I have not And then you coupled that with
Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen madness that it's still It's tapered some,
Speaker 1: but it is still in place in terms of guidelines.
Speaker 1: I've not been around him to one on one interview.
Speaker 1: Now I have been around him, but I could I
Speaker 1: confess I don't think he really knows who I am,
Speaker 1: and I'm then I am fine with that because for
Speaker 1: the first twenty years of Tom Brady's NFL career, he
Speaker 1: didn't know who ke J Reeves was. Then in New England.
Speaker 1: This is no different then for Tom Brady a couple
Speaker 1: of years later. I don't really think he knows who
Speaker 1: I am. But in terms of winning games and winning
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl last year, I'll treate it that off
Speaker 1: for not having the one on one conversations with Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: All right, well, fair enough, that is I'm trying to
Speaker 1: remember when the comp would be I guess Jordan's, but
Speaker 1: I do remember Jordan's doing some media one on one.
Speaker 1: But maybe I'm wrong on that. Maybe he didn't do
Speaker 1: that at the comparison that's valid. And and for the
Speaker 1: elite of the elite, it is rare that you're going
Speaker 1: to get that chance to be around them one on
Speaker 1: one because they just they don't have to. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: if ESPN is broadcasting the game or Fox, like with
Speaker 1: Joe Buck and Troy Antman and Aaron Andrews, you've got
Speaker 1: a good possibility of talking to them, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: as part of the duties to get ready for the game.
Speaker 1: Television of different world. As I've often said, and you
Speaker 1: can appreciate this, and you identified with me, television rules
Speaker 1: the world. That's why we're in Radio Bay. We're down
Speaker 1: at the lower level. So TV does rule the world,
Speaker 1: and they get one on one interviews. I mean, you
Speaker 1: didn't ask me about this, but just real quick, as
Speaker 1: an aside, if you're watching the Manning Brothers on the
Speaker 1: Monday night broadcast, look at the guests that they are
Speaker 1: able to get because of who they are and the
Speaker 1: access they have with TV. I mean the roll call
Speaker 1: of people from Brett Farve talking about a Packer game
Speaker 1: or Nick Saban on the Monday night game with the
Speaker 1: Eagles and the and the Cowboys. Those guys aren't gonna
Speaker 1: do that stuff basically for almost anybody. But but you
Speaker 1: you have that cloud with TV, it's the Manning its ESPN.
Speaker 1: It makes a difference. I will just say this is
Speaker 1: one more aside. I've been around Tom body. He is
Speaker 1: fantastic with all the Buccaneer personnel. He has been tremendously
Speaker 1: cooperative with the business side of the Buccaneers where he
Speaker 1: didn't have to be um again he is he is
Speaker 1: bought fully in figuratively to being part of the buccaneer organization.
Speaker 1: That's great to see. And there was a moment in
Speaker 1: the battles of so Far Stadium on Sunday when it
Speaker 1: was all over, if he had done his media he
Speaker 1: was trying to get to the plane, trying to get
Speaker 1: to the buses to get to the plane fight, d
Speaker 1: l A traffic et cetera. Where they had him on
Speaker 1: a golf car. They have all these uh different ram
Speaker 1: players on golf When they had Brady on the golf
Speaker 1: car trying to get into the buses, and he literally
Speaker 1: had a driver and an armed guard with him as
Speaker 1: he's riding riding by, he do get to the buses.
Speaker 1: I saw that from a distance about thirty ft away
Speaker 1: as he as he zoomed on. So there you go.
Speaker 1: There's another aside. Do you have your own armed guard
Speaker 1: when you were making your way out of Inglewood? Normally
Speaker 1: I do not have to have on personnel around me.
Speaker 1: There's not an occasion for that. However, if I do
Speaker 1: need it, I may instill the help of the Mallee
Speaker 1: Militia that you have in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: and in whatever city I'm in, I contact you. The
Speaker 1: Malone Militia has my back. If I need that, I
Speaker 1: may come to you for that. Well, we will listen,
Speaker 1: t G. We will form Voltron, the Mallet Musia, will
Speaker 1: get hollering James in Minnesota. We'll get Lance, the bus driver.
Speaker 1: We'll get them all together and it'll be quite the
Speaker 1: whack pack. But now what what do you what's your
Speaker 1: vibe on Brady? How many more years do you think
Speaker 1: he plays? And do you think this is the last uniform?
Speaker 1: I think he stays in Tampa the rest of the
Speaker 1: way or does he go somewhere else. So on all
Speaker 1: those questions, the first one is do not doubt that
Speaker 1: the man's gonna play in two. I believe he is
Speaker 1: going to play next year. I believe this is beyond Again,
Speaker 1: all things are are predicated on how long then? And
Speaker 1: you know this, does his shoulder hold up? Does his
Speaker 1: elbow hold up? Because you can talk about the t
Speaker 1: V twelve method with training and eating avocado toast and
Speaker 1: you know whatever else you're gonna eat, and and and
Speaker 1: but you're all your forty four, your arm, your shoulder.
Speaker 1: How long does it last? He he is playing still
Speaker 1: a in a lead level. He can make the throws
Speaker 1: and we believe that will sustain. So I believe he
Speaker 1: will be back for a third season, depending I mean
Speaker 1: if then if they roll on and win another Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of thought, would he just would
Speaker 1: he walk away after last year after winning the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: If you do it again, if you are somehow able
Speaker 1: to repeat, what else do you have to prove to
Speaker 1: put your body through this? Is you've proven to your point? Uh,
Speaker 1: he's He's obviously got tons and tons and tons of
Speaker 1: money and accolades. I don't know, but I believe he
Speaker 1: believes he can still play for two and maybe even beyond.
Speaker 1: The Bucketeer contract is four more years, um, three more
Speaker 1: years after this one. He signed up for a four
Speaker 1: year extend, and when they rework the salary cap, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you can play that long. So we'll
Speaker 1: we'll see a physically at this position, if he can
Speaker 1: still make the throws and play that way. Speaking of
Speaker 1: Payton Manning, you watch Peyton Manning breakdown physically at the
Speaker 1: end of his career. You watch his final year in Denver.
Speaker 1: He couldn't throw the ball fifty yards down the field
Speaker 1: anymore at the end of that Super Bowl winning season
Speaker 1: when they beat the Pampers. Well, yeah, not the case
Speaker 1: right now with Tom Buddy. Will see how long it lasted. No,
Speaker 1: I don't believe he'll go anywhere else. I believe this
Speaker 1: will be it, that he will ride it out with
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers this season, probably next season, and then that
Speaker 1: will that will be the end of his career wherever
Speaker 1: he's done in Tampa back. Yeah, and Drew Brees also
Speaker 1: at the end with the Saints had some issues and
Speaker 1: he seemed like his arm wore down as the season
Speaker 1: went on. By the playoffs, he would have have some
Speaker 1: issues with that. Yeah, I'm not. I mean everyone said
Speaker 1: Brady until fifty. He wants to play until his fifty
Speaker 1: Uh hey, I I said he was done a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago the t J when I was doing
Speaker 1: filling stuff at e I and Boston and and Brady's
Speaker 1: numbers were not particularly good in the offense wasn't really
Speaker 1: clicking for the page. It's even though they ended up
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl one of those years, but Brady
Speaker 1: was kind of in the middle of the pack. And
Speaker 1: then he goes to Tampa and you live in Florida, TJ.
Speaker 1: The fountain of youth, right is is there pots de
Speaker 1: leon in in Florida? And yeah, yeah, I think for
Speaker 1: he and for Grog too. And I know Grog took
Speaker 1: a big shot on the chest and the ribs in
Speaker 1: that game. But Grog has been rejuvenated, revived out of
Speaker 1: youth PP twelve method, whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 1: that they have found it and let's see if it
Speaker 1: can sustain and it's a long season. Can they sustain it?
Speaker 1: Can they continue it? UHG had so many injuries with
Speaker 1: his back, with his hip at the end of his
Speaker 1: New England career, yet he played every game, all twenty
Speaker 1: of them a year ago in the regular season, in
Speaker 1: the playoffs and the best that we understand that they're
Speaker 1: not broken ribs here for him coming out of a
Speaker 1: Rams game, so you know he would have the like
Speaker 1: that line from Days the Funder with Tom Cruise and
Speaker 1: Nicole Kidman where the actor Michael Rooker is playing Routy
Speaker 1: the dayload of hard white character. He says, I I've
Speaker 1: riched with my legs, broke, with my eyeballs on frings,
Speaker 1: I've raised all kinds of that's broadcasting. He's gonna play
Speaker 1: in that game Sunday night with the Patriots even if
Speaker 1: his eyeballs are on the frings. Here, well, let's get
Speaker 1: to the main event this weekend. You will be in
Speaker 1: the eye of the storm, the belly of the beast
Speaker 1: t J on the sidelines there in Foxborough. It's being
Speaker 1: billed as the greatest regular season game in NFL history.
Speaker 1: So what are your expectations t J from the buck
Speaker 1: side of things being there. How great is that? I'm
Speaker 1: so I'll look for you when I'm watching the game
Speaker 1: on TV. But what are your expectations here? I believe
Speaker 1: that this is going to be one of the most
Speaker 1: hyped regular season games that they have had in NFL history.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we can look back on at
Speaker 1: years from now as as one of the great moments. Maybe.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is going to be likely. You can't
Speaker 1: never say never rightly. The only time Tom Brady plays
Speaker 1: there in a regular season game as the visiting quarterback
Speaker 1: because the rotation of the schedule, the Buccaneers would not
Speaker 1: be back there for another eight seasons. I mean Tom
Speaker 1: Brady would be fifty two years the quarterback eight years
Speaker 1: from now. So yes, the hype is going to just
Speaker 1: build and build for It's gonna be some scene. I mean,
Speaker 1: the tickets were five and six thousand dollars apiece in
Speaker 1: the off season. I can only imagine on the secondary market.
Speaker 1: It will build and it will grow Friday to Saturday,
Speaker 1: Saturday to Sunday to try to get in to see this. Uh,
Speaker 1: and you just you hope that the game will live
Speaker 1: up to all that's gonna be said and written and
Speaker 1: shown about it leading up to it, and New England
Speaker 1: is struggling. I mean I watched some of that game
Speaker 1: in the in the press box. I probably saw about it.
Speaker 1: With the Saints, they played poorly again, And as you
Speaker 1: play this thing out, as it builds up, of course,
Speaker 1: the storyline is gonna be Brady is a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: winner last year with the Bucks without Belichick, and now
Speaker 1: if he comes in and plays well or plays outstanding
Speaker 1: and the Buccaneers get back on the winning track and
Speaker 1: dropped the Patriots to one in three and dropped the
Speaker 1: Patriots to oh and three at home on a narrative
Speaker 1: that will set into motion for the rest of this
Speaker 1: year about who misses whom here? So what's the build up?
Speaker 1: I am anxious to be there and to be around it,
Speaker 1: and I will report back, uh to bed an hour
Speaker 1: and everybody else that wants the update, that wants the
Speaker 1: intel on what that scene is like at Gillette Stadium
Speaker 1: something night. Yeah, and it's not. I mean, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be there on the field, but it's gonna be Also
Speaker 1: the pregame, right, does Brady and do Belichick and Brady
Speaker 1: cross paths before the game, and then after the game,
Speaker 1: depending on you know this, do they shake hands, is
Speaker 1: there any kind of embrace there? Does Brady run to
Speaker 1: the locker room? Does Belichick run to the locker rooms?
Speaker 1: So there's all these subplots to the game, and isis
Speaker 1: and just the football part of it the other part
Speaker 1: of it, and then what happens after the game when
Speaker 1: they address the media and they talk about it. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna feed our you know, doing
Speaker 1: the radio show t J and you do the podcast
Speaker 1: stuff and all that. It's gonna feed our content for
Speaker 1: the next week at least after that and probably a
Speaker 1: lot longer. Yeah, they're gonna talk about this day and night.
Speaker 1: I don't know that Rachel Ray is gonna be talking
Speaker 1: about it on the Food Channel, but maybe they're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about it everywhere coming up for this for this game,
Speaker 1: and rightfully so, because the man won six championships with
Speaker 1: Gil Belichick in New England and now here you have
Speaker 1: him coming back as the conquering hero from Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: And I believe this is just me and my speculation.
Speaker 1: I believe you'll see like a pregame handshake or something.
Speaker 1: I mean, they they had such a long relationship with
Speaker 1: so much success, and at some point, you know, you
Speaker 1: put all the bitterness of whatever happened with they don't
Speaker 1: want me anymore, that'll appreciate me anymore aside, you go
Speaker 1: shake hands before it's like black saying, touch gloves, touch
Speaker 1: them up, and now here we go, and let's see
Speaker 1: what New England has, because again, uh, they have not
Speaker 1: looked good at it. And you can disregard being the
Speaker 1: dysfunctionate New York Jets in the middle of those two
Speaker 1: losses to the Dolphins and then this past Sunday to
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston and the Saints were Matt Jones through three
Speaker 1: interceptions in that game. If New England is a is
Speaker 1: a stinky poo in this game? You use stinky poo sometimes,
Speaker 1: don't you? Stinky poo in this game? And Brady is
Speaker 1: fantastic U Boston Sports Radio, the Boston media will be
Speaker 1: relentless and immediate on how how in the world did
Speaker 1: it did it come to this that New England is
Speaker 1: finally again while Brady is living it up and succeeding
Speaker 1: with the Buccaneers. Yeah, and I have you know, friends
Speaker 1: in Boston to do the radio and this is they're
Speaker 1: treating this like a super Bowl. They're gonna have their
Speaker 1: their afternoon guys doing the pregame show, and they're they're
Speaker 1: they're wasting. It's the one topic that will be discussed,
Speaker 1: and you know it has been discussed ad nauseum. But
Speaker 1: there it's Tom Brady and Belichick. It's it's that's it.
Speaker 1: That's all they've talked about on the radio in Boston
Speaker 1: leading up to this. And I predict t J if
Speaker 1: the Bucks do, if this goes the way it's looking
Speaker 1: with the way the Patriots are playing that as good
Speaker 1: as the Bucks are offensively, and this turns out to
Speaker 1: be a blowout, then they'll be calling for Belichick to
Speaker 1: be fired right after the game. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: how this works, right, That's how this is going to go.
Speaker 1: My Belichick's lost it. They gotta get a new coach,
Speaker 1: they gotta start over. Uh. And so that's that's how
Speaker 1: that's gonna go. But you are part of the Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Alumni Association TV are you dudes? Are your
Speaker 1: dues paid up in full? Have you paid your dues?
Speaker 1: I have really up for another year and just let
Speaker 1: us know whatever we get the free T shirt or
Speaker 1: whatever it is. If we've got from Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: as part of the alumni association, I would I still
Speaker 1: I have not done Battling Night on Fix Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: uh since twenty fIF I was there for five years,
Speaker 1: not five free years during Saturday nights from eleven through
Speaker 1: and I got that freelance opportunity and then I kind
Speaker 1: of got installed as the Saturday night guy doing a
Speaker 1: lot of College football Er in the college football season.
Speaker 1: I still have people the power of FS are and
Speaker 1: what Big Ben brings to the table, and obviously Colin
Speaker 1: Calherd and uh Dan Patrick and all the different shows,
Speaker 1: the Odd Couple that's now on and Jason Smith it's
Speaker 1: on at night and we can't believe got my man
Speaker 1: Jonas Knox, theos did two pros and a couple of
Speaker 1: Joe right now are and with with Brady Quinn in
Speaker 1: the mornings and Big Band overnights. Much love from my
Speaker 1: Fix Sports Radio brethren. I still have a lot of
Speaker 1: different friends and acquaintances that I've worked with on the
Speaker 1: year and off the year that are there. So you
Speaker 1: guys keep knocking on the other people still talk to
Speaker 1: me about doing Saturday nights on five Sports Radio. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I for what I'm hed on. I haven't done that
Speaker 1: since Donald Thore Donald Trump became the president, and a
Speaker 1: little while people think that I just stopped doing it,
Speaker 1: like last year or two years ago. So it was
Speaker 1: a neat time. I'm thrilled. One of the relationships I
Speaker 1: got was getting to be around Ben Mallow and do
Speaker 1: things on the air and be on the Malar Show,
Speaker 1: and you and I co hosted some different times on
Speaker 1: some different projects, and we finally got to me. It
Speaker 1: was not quite the macho man and whole hogan at
Speaker 1: the Superpowers with the big handshake and the nineties remember
Speaker 1: that form with the Superpower. Oh yeah, with the handshake.
Speaker 1: It was not quite to that level, but it was
Speaker 1: still need to be around Big Ben and be around
Speaker 1: you at the Rams game. And it's neat to reflect
Speaker 1: back on being on Fox Sports. Yeah, listen was fun.
Speaker 1: I remember those those Saturday nights and you know I
Speaker 1: had I got let go. I was let go by
Speaker 1: the company brought me back, and then I remember I
Speaker 1: was on when I came back, I was doing the
Speaker 1: weekend overnight show and I was your post game show.
Speaker 1: You were on and I was my lead in and
Speaker 1: then I would come on after you and rant and
Speaker 1: rave like a lunatic. And usually I didn't kill all
Speaker 1: of your audiences. No, no, no, no you did. You
Speaker 1: did a great job. And so just to kind of
Speaker 1: wrap this up, t J, how can people follow you?
Speaker 1: I know you're on Twitter, You're on all the social media,
Speaker 1: You've got your your Bucks podcast, you working. You mentioned
Speaker 1: Compass Media Networks, right, you do. The Bucks sidelines are
Speaker 1: all over the place, t J. I am all over
Speaker 1: the place. I have met myself two or three different times,
Speaker 1: coming and going. Thank you for the ploug follow me
Speaker 1: at buck buc Buck sideline guy. I appreciate you sharing
Speaker 1: out the photo. You even tagged me on that. So
Speaker 1: if you want to see what I'm up to on
Speaker 1: Twitter at releasing you when you find me there, find
Speaker 1: me through buccaneers dot com and their mobile app. The podcast,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, is nothing but plots. It's a postgame
Speaker 1: recap podcast with interviews with highlights. We'll have one up
Speaker 1: on the Monday. God willing after this Patriots game this week,
Speaker 1: and after you did a Buccaneer games all the way
Speaker 1: through and I but wong it lasts love that and yeah,
Speaker 1: Compass Media Networks again, as a national outwork. The games
Speaker 1: will be on over the year on Compass Media Network,
Speaker 1: dot com and other outlets as well the different college
Speaker 1: football games they have every week. I'm doing a selects
Speaker 1: I believe six total game package. One of those games
Speaker 1: is this week old Miss Alabama at the time that
Speaker 1: we're taping. Later in the year, I'm getting the chance
Speaker 1: to do in Oklahoma Texas Tech game. I'm also doing
Speaker 1: an Ohio State game later in the year. So Compass
Speaker 1: Media Networks is good and I full around with various
Speaker 1: other podcast projects and internet and web and web stuff.
Speaker 1: You can find me there and still do a bunch
Speaker 1: of where your appearances here in Tampa Bay, etcetera. So
Speaker 1: I appreciate the invite to be on the fifth hour.
Speaker 1: If you'd be on the Mallow Pod. Yeah, I love
Speaker 1: listening to you. I hear you a lot in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night when I'm traveling or coming back.
Speaker 1: I love the video clips. I was rooting you on
Speaker 1: as you were ranting about Matt Stafford when I saw
Speaker 1: that video clip from the Mallow Show overnights, So yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was great to hook up with you.
Speaker 1: I wish have been a better outcome for the Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: but credit the Rams. They looked really good on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And we'll see now if the Bucks can regroup in
Speaker 1: New England and if they can look out. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we need the Bucks to play the Chargers next year
Speaker 1: in l A or something so we can can hang
Speaker 1: out again. So we'll have to make that happen. We played,
Speaker 1: So here's the schedule on that. We played the Chargers
Speaker 1: at home last year, so the next Charger game in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles would be about three years from now. Are
Speaker 1: we checking our social calendars? We're both married men. You
Speaker 1: have to check with the wise. We gotta check on
Speaker 1: three years from now if we have a reunited at
Speaker 1: that so far, but who knows, the Bucks could end
Speaker 1: up playing the Rams again at so Far again next year.
Speaker 1: We played the Rams now three years in a row,
Speaker 1: we could end up playing them again in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: so maybe we hook up. Then we'll see perfect all right,
Speaker 1: tak you t J. Good luck with the travels and
Speaker 1: the broadcast, and I'll be watching on TV and then
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. Thanks for coming on. Much love
Speaker 1: for the Ben Mallard. I love giving the chance to
Speaker 1: catch up. We did with meeting with you and this
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. Thank you for the inn
Speaker 1: by Big then