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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the a everywhere you have found the weekended fund
Speaker 1: zone open for business. Come one, come all fun for
Speaker 1: the whole family. Unless it's not. We will attempt to
Speaker 1: knock your socks off, but in a good way. The
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour with myself, Ben Mallor and Danny g Radio
Speaker 1: in the podcast Ojo This week different than all other
Speaker 1: weeks on the Ben Maller Radio Show, and we talk
Speaker 1: a lot about that here on the podcast. It is
Speaker 1: a companion to keep your company on the weekends. Did
Speaker 1: we go skinny dipping this week? No, we did not
Speaker 1: go skinny dipping this week. There was none of that.
Speaker 1: There was no nudity that took place this week. However,
Speaker 1: there was a major change and if you were paying
Speaker 1: close attention listing in the middle of the night during
Speaker 1: the week. First of all, we thank you, appreciate that
Speaker 1: cool beans. Good job by you. Secondly, one of our
Speaker 1: good radio pals will no longer be working on the show.
Speaker 1: We announced early in the week that our friend Roberto
Speaker 1: Cooking with Roberto Fame, Roberto Flores, who has been part
Speaker 1: of the radio show for a number of years, is
Speaker 1: stepping away. He is leaving the radio show. The announcement
Speaker 1: came down and so we will not get to have
Speaker 1: fun with our pal Roberto any longer as he is
Speaker 1: done with the Ben Mather Show. Roberto worked on our
Speaker 1: program from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three. Some of
Speaker 1: the great highlights with Roberto going back and forth. When
Speaker 1: the Lakers would lose, I would pour salt on the wound.
Speaker 1: When the Clippers would lose, Roberto would stab a knife
Speaker 1: in my gut, and that is how that went. We
Speaker 1: had great times. We're both Dodger fans, so we were
Speaker 1: lamenting the run of Dodger baseball. We were together in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty when the Dodgers won the hardest World Series
Speaker 1: of all time during a global pandemic and beat the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays. So we got to celebrate that under
Speaker 1: the stars together and that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to spend time with Robert. There is
Speaker 1: a tradition, not a great tradition, but there's a tradition
Speaker 1: in the broadcasting business. When you are fired or when
Speaker 1: you leave a broadcast job, you do not get an
Speaker 1: option opportunity to get back and say goodbye to anybody.
Speaker 1: They get rid of you, they change the codes, they
Speaker 1: shut off your email. That's just how it has always been,
Speaker 1: and it appears that is the way it will always be.
Speaker 1: So with the podcast, we have a little more leeway
Speaker 1: here on the podcast, and so I wanted to bring
Speaker 1: back my friend Roberto Flores and spend a couple of
Speaker 1: minutes shooting the shit with our man Roberto and catch
Speaker 1: up on some of the things that he's going through.
Speaker 1: He's got a new career. We'll get into that if
Speaker 1: he's willing to tell us and go over everything. But
Speaker 1: I would like to address as we bring in the
Speaker 1: great Roberto Flores, formerly of the Ben Mal Show, the
Speaker 1: man that kept us on the air in air traffic control,
Speaker 1: hitting all the right buttons and some of the right drops.
Speaker 1: He joins us. Now, so there's a rumor going around, Roberto,
Speaker 1: some of the fans of the show, some of the
Speaker 1: p ones, are convinced that I had you removed from
Speaker 1: the show. So once and for all, Roberto, can you
Speaker 1: confirm or deny that I Ben Malor had you fired?
Speaker 3: Yes? Ben did fire the fuck out of me.
Speaker 1: Well, well, I tried to get Poppy fired, Roberto, and
Speaker 1: they wouldn't listen, and then and then for some reason,
Speaker 1: they got rid of you. I don't I don't understand.
Speaker 1: I don't get it right.
Speaker 3: No, Ben did not fire me. I decided to lead
Speaker 3: the company after five years and without a raising five years.
Speaker 1: So you made a business decision, Roberto, to to go elsewhere,
Speaker 1: to greener pastors. And would you would you like to
Speaker 1: officially reveal I know that a lot of this is
Speaker 1: out there on social media, although you are not We'll
Speaker 1: get to this in a few minutes. You are not
Speaker 1: still on Twitter. We'll address that later on. But would
Speaker 1: you like to officially reveal? Right now, you have changed careers.
Speaker 1: You have made a dramatic change in your career. You
Speaker 1: found a new job. Where will you be working now
Speaker 1: going forward, Roberto, Well, they say.
Speaker 3: When you run the board, you will you're you're you're
Speaker 3: driving the bus. You're driving the bus? Is that correct?
Speaker 3: Is that? Is that what? That's what you say right
Speaker 3: times it in radio?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Sure, Well I'm literally h on my way, hopefully soon
Speaker 3: to be to driving a real bus, a big yellow
Speaker 3: forty ft l a USD school bus. Ben.
Speaker 1: So you just correct, you will be Roberto the school
Speaker 1: bus driver. You will have the responsibility of and you
Speaker 1: don't you're going through the training now, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is that is that is correct. Actually, before
Speaker 3: I can even get behind the wheel and start training,
Speaker 3: I got to get my class B uh, Class B
Speaker 3: licensed permit. And that's what I got today, my Class
Speaker 3: B licensed permit. Yay, I got my license to permit
Speaker 3: to be able to get up behind the wheel today.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, congratulate, thank you, thank you, thank you. How big
Speaker 1: a pain in the butt was that to get the license?
Speaker 1: How hard was it?
Speaker 3: It was not? It was not too hard. You know,
Speaker 3: there's believe it or not, there's like the hardest. So
Speaker 3: I had to take an air brake test, and had
Speaker 3: to take a commercial driver license test, and I had
Speaker 3: to take a passenger test. The air brake test was
Speaker 3: about it was twenty twenty questions and passenger test is
Speaker 3: also twenty questions. Those are the easier those the two
Speaker 3: were the easier ones, and the last one, which had
Speaker 3: just passed today was a commercial driver licensed test and
Speaker 3: that was fifty questions. Luckily, there's you believe it or not,
Speaker 3: there's apps and cheat sheets out there that can help
Speaker 3: you pass these tests. So it was the whats difficult
Speaker 3: one was a commercial driver likesuse because it was fifty questions,
Speaker 3: a little more complicated.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the obvious question is I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: in the mind of the person listening. They're probably saying, well,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, you're part of the radio show and
Speaker 1: that you're you're a buster. Why did you decide on
Speaker 1: this for Berto? What led you down that path to
Speaker 1: want to become a bus driver? Well, let's see.
Speaker 3: First, I can say that even though I saw if
Speaker 3: I saw that great or happy on the air, I
Speaker 3: feel like that was just part of my responsibility of
Speaker 3: being a professional. Like you know, I how to ask
Speaker 3: for a raised twice and he said, oh, you're doing
Speaker 3: a great job, but you know what we can we
Speaker 3: can't pay you. Okay, I asked for a raise once,
Speaker 3: I raised twice. Nothing Also having to not being able
Speaker 3: to sleep during the week was it also was also
Speaker 3: for a fight. So for five years I really didn't
Speaker 3: didn't get constant sleep during the week, which is I
Speaker 3: would sleep one hour and then wake up, go back
Speaker 3: to sleep, wake up another two hours, go back. It
Speaker 3: was never it was never constant a four or five hours,
Speaker 3: six hours of sleep. It was always it was like
Speaker 3: sleep was always up and down. Yeah, and then I
Speaker 3: reached a point last year was really bad. I remember
Speaker 3: I remember texting you one time last year saying have
Speaker 3: you ever have you ever have you ever been not
Speaker 3: able to sleep? And You're like no, And I was like, oh, Ship,
Speaker 3: And I had texted I think it was maybe I
Speaker 3: think it was it was like early early, uh February
Speaker 3: of last year, and it was like I had text
Speaker 3: you around like five o'clock and I had literally had
Speaker 3: gotten no sleep and it was like five pm already.
Speaker 3: It was like the fucking worst. It was like the
Speaker 3: fucking words thing ever, I'm not gonna lie. That's like
Speaker 3: you start, you start, You're like you start mentally like
Speaker 3: like fucking with yourself and like like you're like start
Speaker 3: going through Ship, Like you just start mentally like it's
Speaker 3: it's it's not it's not a good place when you
Speaker 3: you can't get constant sleep.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: So after that, I was just like, you know, maybe
Speaker 3: it's it's it's it's it's a good time to try
Speaker 3: looking looking somewhere else. Uh uh. But the opportunity of
Speaker 3: the bus So I just I just thought about my
Speaker 3: wife and my daughter's schedule. How how they have Monday
Speaker 3: to Friday, uh uh by five o'clock or six o'clock
Speaker 3: at home, relaxing and they go to sleep decent time.
Speaker 3: My wife and my daughter got all the holidays off,
Speaker 3: and and they got all the holidays off. You know,
Speaker 3: you got the vacation. My wife's got a great vacation bay. Uh.
Speaker 3: So I kind of want to have the same schedule
Speaker 3: with my wife and my daughter. And you know, I
Speaker 3: started looking into jobs and L A U.
Speaker 1: S D.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, you know what, being a bus driver
Speaker 3: wouldn't wouldn't be too bad. I've worked a kid before
Speaker 3: in the past, early on in in my early twenties,
Speaker 3: believe it or not, I deal with kids, and I
Speaker 3: thought would be pretty fun. I would see bus drivers,
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, this guy's seems pretty bad as
Speaker 3: to be able to drive a big fucking bus like that.
Speaker 3: I thought it was a cool job, and you know,
Speaker 3: I applied and and uh, I went through the process.
Speaker 3: It's something where you uh various very uh uh background
Speaker 3: checks because it's a it's a believe or not. The
Speaker 3: federal Girnment gets involved because you're going through a commercial license,
Speaker 3: so it involves, uh, getting a commercial license involved, you know,
Speaker 3: be you be able to drive through through different states,
Speaker 3: so the FBI or the federal government gets involved. So
Speaker 3: it was rigorous process. And and you also got to
Speaker 3: be clean. You know, I don't smoke weed, I don't
Speaker 3: do drugs anymore, so it's kind of like a no brainer.
Speaker 3: It was kind of like a no brainer for me.
Speaker 3: And you know, I definitely don't drink as much as
Speaker 3: I used to, just just because I just I was
Speaker 3: just tired. I'm just tired of the hangovers that used
Speaker 3: to get all the time. I still drink it, don't
Speaker 3: get me wrong, but not as much. And it was
Speaker 3: kind of a it was kind of like a no
Speaker 3: brainer for me. And honestly, it's a talking to other
Speaker 3: people a pretty good job, and the pay is great
Speaker 3: to be honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's great. No. And I tried to explain
Speaker 1: to people when I was getting emails, some fans of
Speaker 1: the show, Roberto, and they're they're like, where's he going? Well,
Speaker 1: you got to get them back, and I'm like, you
Speaker 1: don't understand. The overnight hours are not They're a grind.
Speaker 1: They wear you out. People that work overnight and I
Speaker 1: have talked about this, We talked about this together, like
Speaker 1: you don't live as long when you work overnight. It's
Speaker 1: just not good for your health. And like, I'm a
Speaker 1: bad sleeper. I get four or five hours of sleep
Speaker 1: most but compared to you, Roberto, you know, I can
Speaker 1: get three or four solid hours of sleep most of
Speaker 1: the time, and that's pretty much all I need. I
Speaker 1: certainly function better when I get seven or eight hours.
Speaker 1: But I've been doing this a long time, and that's
Speaker 1: just kind of And I remember when you called me
Speaker 1: up and you were talking about how you were having
Speaker 1: issues sleeping, and I was like, remember I went through
Speaker 1: the list. I was like, you got to get triple
Speaker 1: blackout curtains, you got to get a sleep mask, you
Speaker 1: got to get like an air conditioner thing for your room,
Speaker 1: Like all these little tricks that you have to do
Speaker 1: to trys. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the problem is in La when it gets really hot,
Speaker 1: especially where you are where you live Roberto, it gets
Speaker 1: really hot. Yeah, it's impossible. You can't. It's just you
Speaker 1: cannot be comfortable. It's like being in the Sahara desert
Speaker 1: and trying to sleep at the hottest part of the day.
Speaker 1: It's just impossible to do it. And and then when
Speaker 1: you factor in your daughter. How old your daughter by
Speaker 1: the way, now she I haven't seen her in a
Speaker 1: couple so you're set up right. You're gonna you'll be
Speaker 1: able to be around her like and she's gonna remember
Speaker 1: everything now in the next few years are gonna be magical.
Speaker 1: So that's awesome. And and now you won't have to
Speaker 1: worry about leaving Dodger games early to get to the studio.
Speaker 3: Yeah exact, or went up to work that same day
Speaker 3: because you know, I went to a Dodger game. I
Speaker 3: got to go to a Dodger game and to go
Speaker 3: to sleep and wake up and go to work. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that would be great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can hang out at the ball but you
Speaker 1: don't have to leave earlier or anything like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get that. As often as you want. I rode
Speaker 1: the bus, believe it or I probably think I'm like
Speaker 1: a rich kid. I didn't rode the bus, but my
Speaker 1: mom put me on the bus when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: In fact, one of my earliest memories i'll date myself,
Speaker 1: but I I broke my first news story. I broke.
Speaker 1: I was on the school bus coming back from elementary
Speaker 1: school and the school bus driver had the radio on
Speaker 1: and it was breaking news. Ronald Reagan had been shot.
Speaker 1: You know, I'd been yeah, they oh wow. And I
Speaker 1: remember I got off the bus and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm like the boss. And I say, because I heard
Speaker 1: my my bus drivers listening to radio. So I said, mom,
Speaker 1: I heard the president was shot. And I remember telling
Speaker 1: her I was like, my first breaking new story. But
Speaker 1: now there's two kinds of bus driver. I guess there
Speaker 1: was probably three kinds of bus drivers. There's the mellow,
Speaker 1: kind of cool, do whatever you want kind of bus driver. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's the I really liked the kids bus driver, you
Speaker 1: know what, all the kids love the bus driver. And
Speaker 1: then there's the asshole, disciplinarian, death spot type of bus driver.
Speaker 1: Question is Roberto, which kind of bus driver will you.
Speaker 3: Be it's a tough one because hear from some of these, uh,
Speaker 3: some of these people that I've talked to. You gotta
Speaker 3: be you gotta show the kids that you're you're you guys.
Speaker 3: Just set them like running to your run into your
Speaker 3: bus and have a free for all, because then they
Speaker 3: then they walk all over you. So you gotta like
Speaker 3: before the kids even go get on your bus, you
Speaker 3: gotta like say, line up, line up, line up, or
Speaker 3: you're not getting the bus. Let's you gotta be stern.
Speaker 3: So I kind of want to say I want to
Speaker 3: be the death spot, but knowing how I am, I
Speaker 3: don't know. I feel I feel like I might be
Speaker 3: in between the the death spot and the guy that
Speaker 3: lets them do everything. And I think that's who I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you always smile. You always, you always have a smile.
Speaker 1: I love that even when things the last couple of
Speaker 1: years have been tough on you, and you've been trying,
Speaker 1: you know, finding new work, and your sleep's been messed up,
Speaker 1: and you haven't spent enough time with your family, you
Speaker 1: still always have a big smile. I give you credit
Speaker 1: for that because it hasn't like burned you down, at
Speaker 1: least on the outside, it looks like you're you're still
Speaker 1: enjoying life, which which is nice. And then the other thing, REBERA,
Speaker 1: When you're a bus driver, there's not year round school,
Speaker 1: I don't think in la. So what are you gonna
Speaker 1: do during the summer? Do you have that all mapped
Speaker 1: out in your head what you're gonna be Because you're
Speaker 1: gonna have like a great schedule, you actually have time off,
Speaker 1: like you're back in elementary school, but you still have
Speaker 1: bills to pay, So what the heck are you?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, so guess what they don't on a LAUSD.
Speaker 3: They don't if you want to do overtime, go ahead.
Speaker 3: They don't frown upon you working overtime. So if I
Speaker 3: got nothing to do, I'm gonna be working there driving
Speaker 3: a bus in the summertime for extra cash and making
Speaker 3: like sixty bucks an hour doing overtime. So that'll be
Speaker 3: absolutely pretty good. You know the thing about me, Ben
Speaker 3: unlike you to spend money, Ben, So that's that's that's
Speaker 3: the thing. Uh. And then I like I like my
Speaker 3: wife too, I can say because my wife, my wife
Speaker 3: tends to be you know, she's she's better with money
Speaker 3: than I am. And and she was she was making
Speaker 3: like she was making like like she was making about
Speaker 3: double double double double the pay that I make. So
Speaker 3: it was like it was that was one of the
Speaker 3: reasons why I'm like, it's you know, I gotta I
Speaker 3: gotta step up, I gotta step up my game and
Speaker 3: I gotta break some more money home, because I like,
Speaker 3: I'm the one that likes to spend money. I'm the
Speaker 3: one that goes to Dodger games and like five beers. Well,
Speaker 3: she she won't even though she likes to drink her
Speaker 3: she likes to drink her her her self to drinks,
Speaker 3: she won't drink her shelter. I do' understand that because
Speaker 3: she frowns upon the price of being so expensive. So
Speaker 3: so that's another reason why, you know, if I have
Speaker 3: to work, you know, during the summertime, may get your money.
Speaker 3: I'll do it. But if you know, if if I
Speaker 3: have the capability of of you know, taking the whole
Speaker 3: summer off, that would be great. Also, me and my
Speaker 3: wife can actually maybe plan a trip next year in
Speaker 3: the summertime and actually be able to plan way ahead
Speaker 3: of time and be able to go off somewhere maybe
Speaker 3: who knows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. In fact, of all the people
Speaker 1: that have called the show over the years, the one
Speaker 1: that blows me away the most is this guy called Lance,
Speaker 1: the bus driver from there. Yeah, man, I told you
Speaker 1: about him, so yeah yeah. For those that don't know,
Speaker 1: if Lance calls the show every once in a while,
Speaker 1: not as much recently does his work schedule. But Lance
Speaker 1: has been a city bus driver in San Francisco for
Speaker 1: probably over twenty years at this point, maybe even longer
Speaker 1: than that. He's been calling the show off and on
Speaker 1: for close to twenty years. And he used to be
Speaker 1: one of my regular guys and we'd spar back and forth,
Speaker 1: we'd get loggerheads. But Lance, he's living a better life
Speaker 1: than I'm living because he drives the bus. He's got
Speaker 1: a good, solid job. Now. The job is not easy
Speaker 1: because he has to drive through like the Tenderloin district
Speaker 1: of San Francisco, where every it's like zombie apocola whips
Speaker 1: uh yeah, and Francisco people ship on the street, they
Speaker 1: eat their own ship, they do drugs. It's terrible. But
Speaker 1: but his I think as his wife works for the
Speaker 1: airline and his son works in like the hotel business.
Speaker 1: So Lance will send me emails he'll be like on
Speaker 1: a random day in May, he'll be in Paris for
Speaker 1: the weekend because he gets free airfare and he can
Speaker 1: get pretty much free hotel rooms, so he travels the world.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating. So that's the next level. So you start
Speaker 1: out Roberto with the LA Unified School District, and then
Speaker 1: after that the next level. You then go go a
Speaker 1: little higher up and then you got to commit your
Speaker 1: daughter to work for the airline or a hotel and
Speaker 1: then you're then you're amazing.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Aaron, I'll be great, great, great right there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, think about working in in the LAUSD. There's
Speaker 3: a lot of there's not a job, not a job,
Speaker 3: optunities to move up and do different stuff and still
Speaker 3: be able to enjoy way that that that schedule that
Speaker 3: the kids have, you know, when they go to school
Speaker 3: and stuff. So that's another reason why I chose to
Speaker 3: go this route, and because honestly, I looked at other
Speaker 3: radio jobs and they just don't pay, don't don't pay,
Speaker 3: don't pay well anymore. Man, it's just not like it's
Speaker 3: not like it used to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not. It's not a great time any the radio,
Speaker 1: you know. I don't know how A lot of the
Speaker 1: guys do it. And it's tough too, because it'd be
Speaker 1: one thing if we were like my brother lives in Appleton, Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: and you'd probably be fine. The cost of living though
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, Yeah, sane, and there's no end insight, right,
Speaker 1: you know, every summer the gas gets up to six
Speaker 1: dollars a gallon. It's it's ridiculous. Uh, the cost of everything,
Speaker 1: Nicol and Dimi and everything.
Speaker 3: With everything, with the bills to pay groceries. Uh yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's fucking tough to to live in l A.
Speaker 3: In Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of money.
Speaker 3: Everything is going up and up and up, and the
Speaker 3: to seem to come down at all.
Speaker 1: Well, everything goes up except you know, yes, exactly. But
Speaker 1: I think that's across the board. I don't. I think
Speaker 1: that's in almost every profession.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The other thing I wanted to address here, so this
Speaker 1: your move to leave the ben Malers show, Roberto and
Speaker 1: go and become a school bus. Forever we've known about it,
Speaker 1: kind of off off the air. We've had an inkling.
Speaker 1: You told us you kept us in the loop. You
Speaker 1: were very cool about that. We appreciate it. You kind
Speaker 1: of told us what your plan was and you you
Speaker 1: weren't sure one hundred percent, so we didn't say anything.
Speaker 1: I check that I didn't say anything. Now, Eddie, how
Speaker 1: do you feel we burrow? Eddie pretty much spelled out
Speaker 1: your entire plan on the air because he's judas he
Speaker 1: can't get and I'm like, Eddie, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'd be like, what do you mean this? REBURNA want
Speaker 1: that out there? So how do you feel about Eddie
Speaker 1: pretty much letting everyone know before it was official that
Speaker 1: you were leading. My lips have been on it. Screw
Speaker 1: you up? Me?
Speaker 3: No, just kidding. Honestly, I don't mind. I I could
Speaker 3: kind of not not like not with like uh like
Speaker 3: work stuff, but like like other things like outside of work,
Speaker 3: like if my wife tells me something and I can,
Speaker 3: I can kind of like go ahead.
Speaker 1: And like spill the beans.
Speaker 3: So I'm kind of I'm kind of that way in
Speaker 3: a sense like Eddy so but not totally like Eddy,
Speaker 3: but but sometimes so so, so I kind of understanding.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't blame him, Okay, Well, I'm the opposite. I'm like,
Speaker 1: if somebody tells you, if somebody tells me something confidence
Speaker 1: I don't talk about on the radio, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't like anyway. All right, so you you were with
Speaker 1: the show for a good run. You started you what
Speaker 1: was it twenty eighteen? You told me, right, I forget everything,
Speaker 1: everything's I start. I started.
Speaker 3: I started an FSR in the editing uh editing room
Speaker 3: December twenty seventeen, just like the week before New Year's So.
Speaker 1: You started there and then quickly not you know a
Speaker 1: few months later you ended up taking over on our
Speaker 1: show when Danny g the left he got promote. I
Speaker 1: think you replaced Danny g if I. Yeah, that's so
Speaker 1: I've re placed Yeah, yeah, replaced Danny G who's on
Speaker 1: this podcast? Now back with me on the on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite moment or is it all
Speaker 1: a nightmare working on the show? Is there anything that
Speaker 1: was good? Any any favorite memory from the last five
Speaker 1: years running as a key member of the show, anything
Speaker 1: that really stands. Yeah. Whenever the Clippers lost, Screw you, Roberto,
Speaker 1: what is still wrong with the Clippers? Screw you?
Speaker 3: That was all the ship you talking about the Lakers
Speaker 3: and the Clippers. Always Tato the Clippers.
Speaker 1: Hilarious, dude At least the Lakers win a championship while
Speaker 1: you worked on the show. So I did do that.
Speaker 1: But the worst remember the one that when they lost
Speaker 1: to the Nuggets and I wore a paper bag on
Speaker 1: my head, Although that was during COVID, but I still wore.
Speaker 1: I wore a damn paper bag on my head the
Speaker 1: entire the entire fucking show.
Speaker 3: And yeah, when you when you you cursed on the
Speaker 3: air about Doc Rivers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, trust me, I wanted to curse a lot more
Speaker 1: than that. I wanted to do nothing. I would i
Speaker 1: were on satellite radio only because I would have just
Speaker 1: cursed the entire time. The bane of my existence Doc Rivers,
Speaker 1: who ruined not only the Lob City Clippers, but also
Speaker 1: the first part of the Kawhi Leonard Clippers, and that
Speaker 1: that could be the only time That's like Kawhi was
Speaker 1: there and Paul George were there. Since then, they've been
Speaker 1: hurt in the playoffs, one of them or both of
Speaker 1: them every single year. The other thing I thought about
Speaker 1: this to Roberta with you leaving the whit.
Speaker 3: White, I wanted to tell people this, Bennett is the
Speaker 3: only guy in sports that I know that hates one
Speaker 3: team more than he actually likes his team. I hate
Speaker 3: the Lakers. You hate the Lakers more than you actually
Speaker 3: like the Clippers. It's fucking embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Oh that's not true. That's a lie. Ye know, that's fad,
Speaker 1: that's fag. Let me explain first of all. Let me explain.
Speaker 1: First of all, I am surrounded. There's a main date
Speaker 1: at the company to hire people that love Lakers. I've
Speaker 1: been there twenty years. Over twenty years, everyone I've worked with,
Speaker 1: almost with few exceptions, has been a Laker hank. Okay,
Speaker 1: not just a casual way.
Speaker 3: You want to be a Clipper fan, you're not.
Speaker 1: No, no, But there's people from all over the country
Speaker 1: that have worked there. But it doesn't matter. They're all
Speaker 1: Laker Lakers. And it makes me want to puke. Okay,
Speaker 1: it makes me want to puke. And so it's not
Speaker 1: it's not that I don't love when great things happen
Speaker 1: to the Clippers. I enjoy that very much. And I
Speaker 1: hope you'll tune in, Roberto when the Clippers win the
Speaker 1: championship next year, it'll be my matt Piece. It'll be
Speaker 1: my greatest show in the history of broadcasting. I might
Speaker 1: even retire after that show. Roberto, I might join as
Speaker 1: a bus driver. I might just yeah, I might.
Speaker 3: I might.
Speaker 1: Once the Clippers win the championship, that might be the
Speaker 1: final act. That'll be my swan song. I'll get out here.
Speaker 1: I also wanted to point out the other thing about
Speaker 1: you leaving is you have been since you've been a
Speaker 1: key member of the show, many of the people that
Speaker 1: write the different songs for the show, you've been mentioned
Speaker 1: in all of them. So now every song is now
Speaker 1: you are memorialized, mora realized in those songs. So when
Speaker 1: we play them, your name will be mentioned. And I
Speaker 1: guarantee whoever the whoever places you will be pissed off
Speaker 1: because their name won't be in the song.
Speaker 3: A ah, yeah, that's right, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So you'll still be mentioned in those songs until
Speaker 1: people write new songs or whatever. And then as far
Speaker 1: as the drops, and people have been very upset, Mark,
Speaker 1: who's been filling in a lot for you, is not
Speaker 1: a big drop guy eyes kind of that's not his jam.
Speaker 1: And you were very big on the drops. What was
Speaker 1: your favorite drop on the show. Because I the feedback
Speaker 1: I've got, I want to see if you agree with
Speaker 1: the feedback that I've gotten since you left the show
Speaker 1: because there's one drop in particular that people love when
Speaker 1: you play, they demand that you play that. In fact,
Speaker 1: they're spitting mad Roberto that since you left, this drop
Speaker 1: has no longer been played. So I want to I
Speaker 1: want to see if we're on the same wavelength here.
Speaker 1: What are the drops that you loved when you were
Speaker 1: doing all that?
Speaker 3: He blew me off at a hotel and lax.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's not your please out there. He blew
Speaker 1: me off at a hotel near La x.
Speaker 3: Oh. One drop that I really wanted to play. I
Speaker 3: was going to play it. I was going to play
Speaker 3: it recently, and I forgot to play it was Negroes
Speaker 3: look the same.
Speaker 1: Yes, make sure you get it right. That's Phil and
Speaker 1: Joe Nicro But all those Negroes look the same, their
Speaker 1: knuckleball pitchers. And yeah, and that that drop Roberto got
Speaker 1: me in trouble. I had people saying that I was racist,
Speaker 1: that I was like the the Oakland A's broadcast because
Speaker 1: people don't pay attention when they listen, and they some
Speaker 1: people want to hear certain things that were not said.
Speaker 1: But it was it was Phil and Joe nicro Uh brothers,
Speaker 1: that's right, but the and that was that that that
Speaker 1: friend in ed and Spokane got me to say that
Speaker 1: that schmuck edin Spokane, that big potato head. But but
Speaker 1: the the other one, the one that people love, Roberto
Speaker 1: is out of context racist drop racist love that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah the raci Oh yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they love and that. This is people from all
Speaker 1: backgrounds all. It doesn't matter. Everyone thinks that's hilarious. The
Speaker 1: times we live in when you know you you, we'd
Speaker 1: say you know Cleveland browns and you'd play.
Speaker 3: This, Yeah, Cincinnati reds exactly, Chicago black, the Chicago white
Speaker 3: Hogs races exactly.
Speaker 1: Exactly hilarious like that. That is just tremendous. And I
Speaker 1: don't think we've heard that since you you went away
Speaker 1: from the show.
Speaker 3: Oh that's sad. Yeah, that's sad. Man, Come on man.
Speaker 1: Yeah you're Mark.
Speaker 3: Cook it up, pick it up.
Speaker 1: Well, whoever ends up officially, we don't know. There's a
Speaker 1: trial period because it's tough to fill your shoes because
Speaker 1: you have very big feet. But but no, there's a
Speaker 1: trial period. But find someone to replace you, so you
Speaker 1: might it should be same.
Speaker 3: I'll just say that it should be thinking.
Speaker 1: That's your vote yeah, I have no no control over that.
Speaker 1: They haven't asked me. You know, they don't ask me
Speaker 1: those things. But if they do, you know, I'll give
Speaker 1: my opinion. But they haven't asked me that. Now, you
Speaker 1: you did for a long time we had weather with
Speaker 1: Roberto that that gave us the Mexican Doppler. But you've
Speaker 1: been known for cooking with Roberto and I told you, Roberto,
Speaker 1: I remember having a conversation when I came back from
Speaker 1: Minnesota and some of these other meet and greets, like
Speaker 1: the guys that are fans of the show, were they
Speaker 1: were making your recipes, which blew me away because the
Speaker 1: last number of months you haven't even been putting the
Speaker 1: recipes out. You've just been doing them on the show
Speaker 1: and not been like sending out the actual recipes on
Speaker 1: social media because you've been off off of the Twitter.
Speaker 1: So what was the favorite thing, favorite recipe that you
Speaker 1: gave out on Cooking with Roberto? Is there anything that
Speaker 1: you love more?
Speaker 3: I would probably say, uh my, my, my, uh my,
Speaker 3: carn saw the recipe. That's truly because yeah, because I
Speaker 3: gave out various stuff that you could you could have
Speaker 3: done with it. Also, get like a nacho saw the
Speaker 3: fries and the recipe and it was basically still based
Speaker 3: on my carnate saw the recipe and uh and uh
Speaker 3: it was another one. Yeah, what was my my my uh,
Speaker 3: my carnate saw the recipe? Was was was my? Was
Speaker 3: my favorite one? Because dos a few of the things
Speaker 3: that I said that you were able to do with
Speaker 3: my carnasilo. Yeah, it's not coming up. It's not coming
Speaker 3: on the top of my head right now.
Speaker 1: I got you. I got you.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: The other question, we had talked to you on the
Speaker 1: air and you had said, if Dave Roberts got fired,
Speaker 1: you'd go back on Twitter. Dave Roberts. I just checked.
Speaker 1: He's not been fired yet, Roberto, even though after this
Speaker 1: week in Cincinnati he probably should have been. But Dave
Speaker 1: Roberts not fired. And you then also said, Josh McDaniels,
Speaker 1: if he got replaced, you would go back. He didn't
Speaker 1: get replaced. He's still coaching the Raiders. But now you've
Speaker 1: changed jobs. So is there any chance that you will
Speaker 1: pop back up randomly and reactivate the Twitter account or
Speaker 1: is that dead forever?
Speaker 3: You're fired, not dead forever. So if people want to
Speaker 3: see me back on Twitter, they should pray that the
Speaker 3: Dodgers win the World Series, and then I'll be back
Speaker 3: on Twitter. How about that?
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. So if the Dodgers, Yeah, come on.
Speaker 3: People, pray for the Dodgers win the World theories.
Speaker 1: Come on, we need the Dodgers to win the world
Speaker 1: Are you still paying off the twenty seventeen World Series, Roberto?
Speaker 1: Are you still paying that off?
Speaker 3: I think that's that's finally it's finally done.
Speaker 1: I believe, so finally after all these years. Anything you
Speaker 1: will you want to say to Jose Altuve, anything you
Speaker 1: want to pass on to our boot.
Speaker 3: To fucking midget, fuck that guy?
Speaker 1: All right, very well, and we'll get you out on this, Roberto.
Speaker 1: Anything you're gonna miss about radio? I know the business
Speaker 1: has changed a lot. You've been in radio a while.
Speaker 1: It's a lot different than when you started it. You
Speaker 1: think you're completely done with radio?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Bus drivers a great job. You can have that probably
Speaker 1: the rest of your life if you want. You think
Speaker 1: your radio's over? And what are you gonna miss about?
Speaker 1: If anything?
Speaker 3: I missed, I missed the I missed the camaraderie without
Speaker 3: you guys, with you guys, I'm you and and Eddie
Speaker 3: and Coop and even working with Jonas and Lee and
Speaker 3: LeVar and Brady was a lot of fun. I'm to
Speaker 3: come out with with all of you guys, that was
Speaker 3: a lot of fun. But the pay I've definitely I'm
Speaker 3: definitely not going to miss that, So I think for
Speaker 3: that reason, I probably won't be back in radio for
Speaker 3: that reason alone. And you know, it's like all of
Speaker 3: the stuff added up for me was the you know,
Speaker 3: having to work over overnight when when I couldn't sleep,
Speaker 3: and then.
Speaker 1: In the holidays too, having to work on holidays off.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I had to ask to get
Speaker 3: a holiday off if I wanted to, if I wanted
Speaker 3: to have the holiday off, those kinds of things. A
Speaker 3: lot of that stuff took a lot of the the
Speaker 3: fun out of the jobs. But working with you guys,
Speaker 3: you know, you know, you know for that time when
Speaker 3: I was there, you know made it fun. And you
Speaker 3: know when I had when I was there, you know,
Speaker 3: it was a lot of fun working with all of you.
Speaker 3: So I'm definitely gonna miss that.
Speaker 1: Well, I loved you, I still love you. I'll still
Speaker 1: bust your balls about to do We'll go back and
Speaker 1: forth with the Dodgers and when the Lakers lose, I'll
Speaker 1: make sure to send you a text.
Speaker 3: When when Kawhi terrors the next a cl Yeah, I
Speaker 3: wanted to text you for that.
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis has some kind ersenal backup and is not
Speaker 1: able to play, I'll send you a smiley emoji or
Speaker 1: something like that. But good luck with the school bus driving.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss you on the show. I've loved you
Speaker 1: on the show. It's been a lot of fun. The
Speaker 1: fans love you. We're all gonna miss you, and hopefully
Speaker 1: we got to get together at some point here and
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll still be friends. I know a lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know, it is with Berto. You work with somebody
Speaker 1: for a while and then you change jobs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's the crazy, right cause I've been I've
Speaker 3: been in this business bus and then raided since I
Speaker 3: was in uh two thousand and three, and there is
Speaker 3: a there. My first radio job, my my first boss,
Speaker 3: I still I still talk to from time to time,
Speaker 3: and he's one of the longest people that I've that
Speaker 3: I've talked to. I've been in radio and then my
Speaker 3: second radio job, I was there for like ten years,
Speaker 3: and a lot of those people I just talked to
Speaker 3: them in social media, but I'm definitely gonna try to
Speaker 3: keep contact with with with everybody that you know, I
Speaker 3: worked with, the ne FISR that I that I talk
Speaker 3: to every day. Definitely, they're going to try to tain
Speaker 3: to keep contact because life's too short.
Speaker 1: Exactly, man, exactly, you got to enjoy. I mean, people
Speaker 1: come and go in your life, and you try to
Speaker 1: keep people around as many people as you can. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll let you go on that, Roberto, Thank you, good luck,
Speaker 1: enjoy your weekends off, enjoy your holidays off, enjoy summer's off.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have much more time off than iver we'll
Speaker 1: have again, So thank you for your time and I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thanks Roberto. You got a bank going Dow