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, to 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: as we are starting a brand new Saturday on the
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard and Danny G. Because four
Speaker 1: hours a night or not enough and this podcast now
Speaker 1: eight days a week. Well kind of the radio show podcast,
Speaker 1: which is a version of a podcast because they they
Speaker 1: molded into the podcast format. But here we are. I
Speaker 1: know you're very excited about that. Myself, Ben Mallock, the
Speaker 1: Great Danny G Radio back from Lost Weight, just Nevada
Speaker 1: and here he is. Unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's up, Ben?
Speaker 1: I got my NASA snap back hat on and I'm
Speaker 1: ready to do some rocket science on this show. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I want you to know I'm wearing right now. Do
Speaker 1: you know what hat I'm where you can see me
Speaker 1: right now? Is that the Philadelphia A's hut, no, no,
Speaker 1: try again. Guest number two, what do you think. Let's
Speaker 1: see that is the Antelope Valley ant eaters. There you go,
Speaker 1: you got that right. Amazing job, unless unfortunately that is
Speaker 1: not correct. But the the answer is this is a
Speaker 1: Arkansas razorbacks hat that one of our great podcast listeners
Speaker 1: sent in and I I like it. I don't normally
Speaker 1: wear hats with a's on them, because I only like
Speaker 1: hats with the B for Ben or M for for Mallard.
Speaker 1: But this is such a cool hat. It's an exemption.
Speaker 1: I got a few hats that I wrote work in
Speaker 1: my rotation that don't have the M or BE on them,
Speaker 1: but this is one of them. Is a good hat,
Speaker 1: very large, a one of the biggest letters I've seen
Speaker 1: in a hat. I got it all over me. Anyway,
Speaker 1: on this edition of the podcast here the fifth hour,
Speaker 1: we first of all want to beg you to please
Speaker 1: give a good review, not a bad review, a good
Speaker 1: review five stars, five stars. Again, people say, why does
Speaker 1: it matter who the hell reads those things? And I
Speaker 1: agree with you. I think a normal person would not
Speaker 1: read those things. But you gott understand we have management
Speaker 1: and they have a lot of time on their hands
Speaker 1: and so they read those things and it doesn't make
Speaker 1: any sense to me. But again that that's just an
Speaker 1: easy way to help us and do us a solid
Speaker 1: and would certainly certainly be great if you could do that. Again,
Speaker 1: that's on the mainly the Apple page, right, Danny, isn't
Speaker 1: that the main one for the podcast review? It is? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's where you find the review capabilities. Yeah, so please
Speaker 1: say yes no no, you know I said say yes,
Speaker 1: not no. If you disagree with something Ben says on
Speaker 1: the podcast, feel free to give a two star review. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: because if you believe that I've said anything incorrect, I mean,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with you? Have you noticed that I love
Speaker 1: this toy that I have to access to It's just amazing. No,
Speaker 1: I haven't noticed, not at all. Right. Yeah, I did
Speaker 1: add a few more bells and whistles this week to
Speaker 1: make it make it more exciting. Yeah. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: if you had this available on your live show? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 1: I've told I've told the story. Did I think I
Speaker 1: told you? Years ago? When I was first started, I worked,
Speaker 1: I started San Diego and I got my first real
Speaker 1: talk show. Break was in l A and we had
Speaker 1: those the replay machines. Wheah. They were called instant replay machines. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: the really expensive old technology compared to now you can
Speaker 1: do everything on your phone now. But I had that
Speaker 1: and I, oh, I love that machine so much. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, it was awesome. Uh everything, I just hit
Speaker 1: all the buttons after and I hit the rim shot
Speaker 1: after everything, and that was the funniest out. And my
Speaker 1: program director, this guy Bo Bennett, came running in. He
Speaker 1: was not a fan of my use of the replay machine,
Speaker 1: and he literally in the middle of a segment I
Speaker 1: was talking. I was on the show with this guy
Speaker 1: named David Smith, and they pulled the replay machine out.
Speaker 1: He was so upset. There were cables attached to it,
Speaker 1: either power and then there was another connected to the board,
Speaker 1: the engineering board, and he just ripped that thing out
Speaker 1: and its stormed out of the studio and that was
Speaker 1: that was the end of the replay machine for me.
Speaker 1: So yeah, this is like a special treat anyway, in
Speaker 1: this edition the Saturday podcast, and he has the weekend
Speaker 1: and all that there's no football this weekend, waiting Super
Speaker 1: Bowl weeks coming up, and all about the Oh Bowl,
Speaker 1: Like I said, there's no football going on this weekend.
Speaker 1: Uh so, But but we do have we do have
Speaker 1: tales from our lives, tales from what what? What? What
Speaker 1: better content than random stories? It's storytime. Everyone loves a
Speaker 1: good story. Then, you know, in advertising these days, the
Speaker 1: people who make commercials have determined that the way to
Speaker 1: get people to spend money is to tell a store.
Speaker 1: It's like restaurants. Have you gone to it was the
Speaker 1: last time you to a restaurant, Like a chain restaurant.
Speaker 1: They didn't have the story of how the restaurants started,
Speaker 1: and you know that, you know they were poor, and
Speaker 1: they know the moms recipe with whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: And they all do it because they have market research
Speaker 1: that claims that people love that stuff and it causes
Speaker 1: them to go to support whatever that might be. More. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that you're gonna support this podcast more,
Speaker 1: but we just we we're just here too, schmooz. Right,
Speaker 1: So we're doing so on this podcast, We've got dress rehearsal,
Speaker 1: the Death Star, these tighter Man meme comes to life,
Speaker 1: and ten year old Benny's dream come true. All of
Speaker 1: those year old Benny you know exactly. Uh So, I
Speaker 1: wanted to start with this. Now. As you know, Danny,
Speaker 1: I don't get out of the Mallard mansion much anymore,
Speaker 1: this being the COVID era of our lives. And I
Speaker 1: do not like the bullshit that you have to go
Speaker 1: through to go anywhere, and a lot of red tape.
Speaker 1: I can't stand it. Drives me not. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of it is just for show and it doesn't
Speaker 1: accomplish anything. If I believe it accomplished something, I would
Speaker 1: be all in on it. I think it's just for,
Speaker 1: you know, just for people to say, oh, look at me,
Speaker 1: I'm virtue signaling. I can't stand it. So uh you know,
Speaker 1: the fact I have to go to a football game
Speaker 1: and show my papers to cover a football game, it
Speaker 1: just blows me away. Uh, it's insane to me. I
Speaker 1: do appear to be in the minority though, because I
Speaker 1: don't think many people are not going to these things.
Speaker 1: But so I had been a staple for like twenty
Speaker 1: five plus years of my life at these sporting events,
Speaker 1: and now in this year of my life, last three
Speaker 1: years two, it's rare and appropriate. I still go out.
Speaker 1: I'll go to a Dodger playoff game or a RAM game. Everyone,
Speaker 1: but it's rare and appropriate. And the the NFC Championship
Speaker 1: game got me to leave my house and I didn't
Speaker 1: make it in and we were talking about that on
Speaker 1: the podcast and I was like, well, am I gonna go?
Speaker 1: And I one the reason I said, am I gonna go?
Speaker 1: Not gonna go? Because I was like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: the traffic and the the bullshit. But I ended up
Speaker 1: doing it, and I'm glad I did. I went to
Speaker 1: Sopi Stadium in the hood in Inglewood. How scared were
Speaker 1: you with that interception that was in the Niner players hands? Well,
Speaker 1: you got to complete the play and he didn't complete
Speaker 1: the play, So bat job by him. That's that's the difference, right,
Speaker 1: It's just like, yeah, I don't know what his first
Speaker 1: name is, but that listen that through the David Tyree catch, great,
Speaker 1: great catch people love. I think it was a bull
Speaker 1: bull crap catch. But he drops that much different conversation, right,
Speaker 1: We're having a much different conversation. Patriots had the perfect
Speaker 1: was that the perfect year? But I don't know if
Speaker 1: that was even the perfect year. I think that was
Speaker 1: a different year. But no, we're having a different conversation
Speaker 1: about this, and instead of you know, goofing on Brady
Speaker 1: for losing to Eli. A couple of times, we're playing
Speaker 1: the sad violin, like how did you lose that game?
Speaker 1: It's wrong with you, shame on you anyway. Now, were
Speaker 1: you in the beautiful media box? I was? I was
Speaker 1: so uh and uh you know this, it was a
Speaker 1: long weekend. Uh. You know, there's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: going on in that. But world class operation tip of
Speaker 1: the microphone to the rams. I mean that is my god.
Speaker 1: I was able to get a taste any of the
Speaker 1: super Bowl experience. As you know, the super Bowl is
Speaker 1: only for the cool people. And I'm not a cool
Speaker 1: and you know you're part of me. Now you're cool,
Speaker 1: but I'm you're with me, so you're not cool. So
Speaker 1: uh but the super Bowl for like the media elites,
Speaker 1: you know, the top one percent of media. And most
Speaker 1: of the people that cover the super Bowl don't actually
Speaker 1: go to the game. It's a dirty little secret. They
Speaker 1: have to watch on television or they don't. Even a
Speaker 1: lot of the radio people that come out and cover
Speaker 1: the super Bowl they go back. They don't even stay
Speaker 1: for the game because they don't have access to access
Speaker 1: is limit anyway. Uh So it was out there got
Speaker 1: their taste the super Bowl experience that why is that
Speaker 1: not not just because it was the same stadium as
Speaker 1: super Bowl is gonna be next weekend, But the forty
Speaker 1: niner RAM game was a preview of coming attractings. What
Speaker 1: I mean by that I was told by a source,
Speaker 1: shall we say, that the hospitality staff it's so Fi
Speaker 1: stadium treated that game like a dress rehearsal, that they
Speaker 1: were using that game as a model for what they
Speaker 1: were gonna do in the super Bowl. Which what did
Speaker 1: that mean for for me? What does that mean for
Speaker 1: the media? That meant for us freeloading in the media.
Speaker 1: We were treated like kings. We were treated like the
Speaker 1: one percenters who are actually gonna be at the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: And so it was like a heavyweight boxing match. When
Speaker 1: I looked at all the food was let's go, here
Speaker 1: we go. I'm gonna box box the food right now, man,
Speaker 1: I'm ready to go. There was food in the air everywhere.
Speaker 1: They had a pregame meal chicken catch A tory said
Speaker 1: that right there was a pasta dish potatoes, veggies that
Speaker 1: wasn't really my jam. I didn't go for that, Danny
Speaker 1: h But they had a candy bar, you know, like
Speaker 1: an open candy bar. They had oh my god, Eminem's.
Speaker 1: They had the Hershey Bars, both regular and almond. They
Speaker 1: had a chocolate side and then the other side. They
Speaker 1: had like gummy stuff all right, so sweet and sour.
Speaker 1: I didn't see they had a brownie table of brownies, cookies,
Speaker 1: had soda bar. I didn't see any booze. There was water,
Speaker 1: bottled water, healthy snacks. They had a salad bar. I
Speaker 1: stayed away from that, Danny. I stayed ten feet. I
Speaker 1: was socially distancing from the salad bar. End up. But
Speaker 1: I did not I was I was fasting. I did
Speaker 1: not actually eat any of the meal, any of the
Speaker 1: food before the game. I waited, damn this veteran move.
Speaker 1: Veteran move. I waited till halftime. And the reason I
Speaker 1: waited at halftime they had more bend friendly foods at halftime,
Speaker 1: so they I'm talking to the third person. They had
Speaker 1: more food that was more my jam. At halftime. That's
Speaker 1: when they pulled out just ram it many sliders, delicious
Speaker 1: little cheeseburgers, uh pepper chicken wings, unfortunately, bone in tater tots,
Speaker 1: curly fries, onion rings, and there was some other stuff,
Speaker 1: but that's all I focused on nice and so I
Speaker 1: hit that hard, just ram it hit. That was a
Speaker 1: wonderful corner copia of just deliciousness, and I loved it.
Speaker 1: And again I was told that it's the same set
Speaker 1: up they're gonna have Super Bowl. It's not gonna be
Speaker 1: any different. And so I got to experience that, and
Speaker 1: I'm grateful it was. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: So I had a good time out there. And I
Speaker 1: have some other stories that will tell later on some
Speaker 1: things that happened to me randomly while I was was
Speaker 1: out at the the Rams game with the fourtane So
Speaker 1: I was I was doing that. You were hanging out
Speaker 1: in Lost Wages, Nevada before we get to the desk Star.
Speaker 1: Did you do in a game? No? But my tender
Speaker 1: RONI did she win any money? She did, and then
Speaker 1: at the end of the trip that got it back.
Speaker 1: But she brought three hundred in cash to gamble with.
Speaker 1: That was her budget, Okay, So she was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I have three hundred dollars and twenty dollar bills. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be what I gamble with at the slot machine.
Speaker 1: She loves that wheel of Fortune machine. That's her machine.
Speaker 1: That's her jam. My wife likes that Wolf Run. Okay,
Speaker 1: you've seen that one. She thinks that's a lucky machine.
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that. But yeah, she sits down
Speaker 1: at the wheel of fortune machine and she puts five
Speaker 1: dollar bets at a time. That's a lot. That's a
Speaker 1: bet on a slot machine. Yeah, some people do dimes
Speaker 1: and pennies and nickels, and nope, she plays five dollars
Speaker 1: at a time, Go bigger, go home, okay. And her
Speaker 1: first twenty dollar bill, she turned it into a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty six bucks. Now the movie, and let me
Speaker 1: ask you if she did what I what I would
Speaker 1: advise you hit a hunter your So she's up a
Speaker 1: buck twenty right at that point, take the buck twenty,
Speaker 1: put it away back three. That's what I would do that,
Speaker 1: I said. Okay, cash out, you're out. Yes, Yes, that's
Speaker 1: the move, Danny. Cash out. She did. She turned it
Speaker 1: into a ticket, which I posted on my two her
Speaker 1: account last weekend. So she carried around that one six
Speaker 1: dollar ticket all weekend. But she continued to play the
Speaker 1: rest of the cash that she had in her purse.
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell what she had one and what she
Speaker 1: had lost because she had a combination of tickets and
Speaker 1: spare change just moving around from her wallet to her
Speaker 1: purse to her pocket. Everything had been joined together as
Speaker 1: everything was in a jumbled I got it. That's the
Speaker 1: whole purse. Let me tell the purse in theory. A
Speaker 1: great idea, but everything gets all mixed together. You don't
Speaker 1: even know, right, it's it's every Every purse has got
Speaker 1: to be like that. Yeah. By the end of the weekend,
Speaker 1: she counted what she had in tickets and it was
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars. So she said, hey, this is good.
Speaker 1: I address myself. I'm even right now to her credit.
Speaker 1: On the last day we were there, on Sunday, she
Speaker 1: won twenty bucks on her way out, so she left up.
Speaker 1: Want to eat dollars? That's good, it's not bad. She
Speaker 1: basically did all that gambling to win twenty bucks and
Speaker 1: get a sore throat from all of the cigarette smoke.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's that's that's one of the few places
Speaker 1: left the western part of the United States where that
Speaker 1: is allowed. Man, what is up with all of the
Speaker 1: people smoking cigarettes there and blowing it in your face? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I wonder are these people because we live in California,
Speaker 1: where you're not really allowed to smoke anywhere. Do these
Speaker 1: people just smoke because they went in Vegas, act like
Speaker 1: you're in Vegas? Or do these people actually smoked year round?
Speaker 1: I because I don't see a lot of people smoking
Speaker 1: anymore because it's been banned everywhere pretty much. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: you said, we don't see it anywhere where we live.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because she asked me that same question
Speaker 1: when we saw a cigar bar and guys were standing
Speaker 1: out in front of that blowing all the cigar smoke
Speaker 1: in other people's faces. And that's a step bup of
Speaker 1: nasty and um at the Caesar's Palace, that's where that was.
Speaker 1: But literally, you walked past somebody and they look at
Speaker 1: you and they blow the cigarettes smoke right at your face. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a bunch of assholes, pretty much. And I told her,
Speaker 1: I said, no, these are people who supposedly quit smoking cigarettes,
Speaker 1: but when they go to Vegas they let it all
Speaker 1: hang out. So there are a smoker again. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: fall back, and do you smell anything else there while
Speaker 1: you were in Vegas? Yeah? The strip? Yeah, the Strip
Speaker 1: smelled like a hundred coups. There was an infestation of
Speaker 1: skunks that somehow attacked the Vegas strip. I don't know
Speaker 1: how that is. It's unbelievable. Did you stop and see
Speaker 1: the Belage deal fountains Spliff City? Uh No, didn't look
Speaker 1: at the fountains. I think we've seen that before. But
Speaker 1: we did get to stay at the Palazzo, which was nice.
Speaker 1: That is a good hotel. Yeah, it's a good. Look
Speaker 1: at you you're a baller, of course, connected to the Venetian. Basically,
Speaker 1: just got to walk around those two properties. Across the
Speaker 1: street to Caesar is a little bit. You know. We
Speaker 1: were at the baseball field for a lot of the
Speaker 1: daytime Saturday and Sunday, so it was more nighttime action
Speaker 1: in late afternoon action where we were actually at a casino.
Speaker 1: That's cool. Yeah, I've not been to Vegas, but I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to go to Vegas, I think later this month.
Speaker 1: I possibly tentatively scheduled the Good to Vegas later in
Speaker 1: the month of February, but I haven't been there since
Speaker 1: COVID thing. So I went right before COVID and that
Speaker 1: was that was that. But this thing never seems to end,
Speaker 1: just keeps going on. And on and on. How busy
Speaker 1: it was Vegas because a pack it was packed. It
Speaker 1: was I would say about of the people there wore masks,
Speaker 1: but it's not a choir like in California. It's more like,
Speaker 1: if you want to that is it a rule you
Speaker 1: have to wear the mask. Here it seemed like it
Speaker 1: was a rule inside but obviously not outside. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's so far You know the how the the
Speaker 1: governor of California keeps mandating mask that wasn't even wearing
Speaker 1: a mask. All these these Hollywood a holes who were
Speaker 1: telling everyone to wear masks. We're not wearing masks. Saw
Speaker 1: that already infamous picture with Magic Johnson. Yeah, that's it was.
Speaker 1: It was ridiculous. But yeah, I can go on and
Speaker 1: on that. So you ended up at the Death Star,
Speaker 1: the Legendary Raiders Stadium. There um beautiful looks like on television.
Speaker 1: Never been there. Did it live up to your expectations? Yeah,
Speaker 1: beyond impressive. I kind of knew what to expect going
Speaker 1: in because I followed along the whole time it was
Speaker 1: being built on YouTube. There was a cool special called
Speaker 1: from the ground Up with Mike Rowe. Oh I gotta
Speaker 1: check that. Us on YouTube. Yes, I love Micro. We
Speaker 1: gotta try to get Micro on the podcast. Very cool dude.
Speaker 1: If you don't know who we're talking about. He's the
Speaker 1: host of the World's Dirtiest Jobs, Dirty Jobs on Discovery. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love love Micro. Dude's got one of the best
Speaker 1: narrator of voices in the business. He narrates this series
Speaker 1: where they literally from the first shovel in the ground
Speaker 1: until they unveil the completed Death Star. He takes you
Speaker 1: through the entire process and to watch them spend billions
Speaker 1: of dollars and to see how much technology and everything
Speaker 1: goes into this new stadium that they sped up because
Speaker 1: they wanted to get it done for that season, which
Speaker 1: wound up getting canceled for fans because of COVID. But
Speaker 1: this was a five year project that they rushed into
Speaker 1: three and a half years, and so to watch them
Speaker 1: works seven been days a week around the clock. Now
Speaker 1: to be able to go there in person last weekend
Speaker 1: and actually see it with my own eyes and walk
Speaker 1: through the hallways and get on the field see all
Speaker 1: of the art installations throughout the building. That was the
Speaker 1: one thing that stood out to me, the attention to detail.
Speaker 1: Ben ridiculous there. I mean, everything precise and perfect and
Speaker 1: just a masterpiece. Yeah, that's cool. It does look realize.
Speaker 1: So you did the actual stadium tour, right, you did that.
Speaker 1: I had a buddy of mine that lives in Vegas
Speaker 1: who said, you gotta do that. It's the coolest thing.
Speaker 1: They take you everywhere and you can get a photo
Speaker 1: and the whole thing, like from I guess from a
Speaker 1: distance they zoom in. I don't know what they do.
Speaker 1: They take you to where our friend Brent Musburger and
Speaker 1: Lincoln Kennedy sit during the game. And then they also
Speaker 1: take you to Mark Davis's personal suite that you get
Speaker 1: a view from there. Did they give you the Mark
Speaker 1: Davis hair cut? Did they give you that that bowl cut?
Speaker 1: Is that part of the deal? I asked one of
Speaker 1: the tour guides if there was a barbershop for Mark
Speaker 1: Davis there, and he just laughed, So I think the
Speaker 1: answer was no. Well, not only that, but the where's
Speaker 1: he Where's is the PF Change he hangs out at? Yeah,
Speaker 1: p F Change is his favorite spot. There's one right
Speaker 1: there on the strip, not far from the stadium. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, so you made the rounds. What was your
Speaker 1: favorite part? Was it the locker room, was the press box?
Speaker 1: Was it just being in the tunnels underneath? Like? What
Speaker 1: was the coolest part? I would have to say the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame row. They did a great job on that,
Speaker 1: and the raider ats shiny new facility. Hello, he's a
Speaker 1: lovely lady in my apologies tour my Tinda Rowning took
Speaker 1: a picture of herself in the mirror there as she
Speaker 1: is my raider at And it's funny because they have
Speaker 1: a tour guide in the front who's doing all the talking. Yeah, yeah, up,
Speaker 1: and then there's just one guy trailing in the back
Speaker 1: whose sole job is to be the caboose of the train.
Speaker 1: And so we were straggling the whole time so we
Speaker 1: could get the better pictures without strangers in the shots.
Speaker 1: He just kept telling us, Oh, it's all good as
Speaker 1: long as I'm the last one. You're good, You're good.
Speaker 1: So they were. Was he also worried somebody was gonna be,
Speaker 1: you know, sneak away and and uh hide out in
Speaker 1: the stadium or something like that. Was that really were
Speaker 1: worried about? Yeah? Probably, um, you know, because he looked
Speaker 1: very nervous. His head was on a swivel inside Mr
Speaker 1: Davis's suite, and I was thinking it was someone gonna
Speaker 1: do like sleeping here until the next game. But once
Speaker 1: we got to where the raidar ats are very cool.
Speaker 1: It was like a raidar At museum. I mean, it
Speaker 1: showed what the raidar ats looked like in the sixties
Speaker 1: and there was it was like a museum of their
Speaker 1: uniforms throughout the seasons. The tour guide in the back
Speaker 1: told us that his favorite raidar At was Mackenzie. We
Speaker 1: went and looked and she was all right, but he
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, forget Beyonce, I got to meet her.
Speaker 1: She's bad. He was telling us how he would cheat
Speaker 1: on her even though he's engaged, he would cheat on
Speaker 1: his fiance with Mackenzie. And so we had a good
Speaker 1: time laughing at this guy's jokes and we were making
Speaker 1: him laugh. We were the end of the train there,
Speaker 1: and so that made the tour extra fund the fact
Speaker 1: that we didn't follow directions and we didn't really listen
Speaker 1: to the lady that was talking at the front of
Speaker 1: the tour. Yeah, so she was droning on and on
Speaker 1: and on, and you were just kind of enjoying the
Speaker 1: sights and the stuff. We were in the back goofing around,
Speaker 1: were like the kids goofing around on the field trip. Yeah, well, good,
Speaker 1: good for you. That's the proper way to have a
Speaker 1: stadium tour. I would agree with that. All right. So
Speaker 1: now you've seen this, Now you gotta go to a game, right,
Speaker 1: that's the next step. You gotta go to a game
Speaker 1: there next year. That is the next step you talked
Speaker 1: about so far at the top of the podcast. I've
Speaker 1: been there. Very very cool stadium, but very steep. You're
Speaker 1: not a man of the people when it comes to
Speaker 1: rams games, so you don't understand. But but Ben, when
Speaker 1: you actually sit in a section there, not up in
Speaker 1: the in the high falutin breast box, yeah, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's so steep that if you slightly tripped, you fall
Speaker 1: down this toilet bowl to your death. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: like that. I'm not I'm not a fan of steep.
Speaker 1: That was the one thing I liked better about Vegas
Speaker 1: than so far was you didn't have that steepness going
Speaker 1: on with the sections there. Yeah. Did they have a
Speaker 1: lake in front of the stadium in Vegas like they
Speaker 1: do in my tinder? Rooney's son said, Okay, you guys
Speaker 1: have seen both now, so what what do you think.
Speaker 1: What's the biggest difference between the two stadiums. We both
Speaker 1: said the same thing. We like the inside of the
Speaker 1: Death Start better. We like the outside of so Far better.
Speaker 1: If Vegas is the Death Star, are so Far as
Speaker 1: Jurassic Park? Yeah, it's it's crazy. It's like this weird. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's right in the middle of Englewood, which is not
Speaker 1: a great neighborhood in l A, that part of of
Speaker 1: l A. And it's just amazing, like popped up, not
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, out of five billion dollars, but craziness
Speaker 1: all right, because I have the Spider Man meme becomes reality.
Speaker 1: So back to the trip to SOFI over the weekend.
Speaker 1: A lot of red tape, as I said, mass police
Speaker 1: all that stuff, A bunch of boozing forty Niner fans
Speaker 1: who walked through there before the game. Danny and I
Speaker 1: had to walk and I parked far away and I
Speaker 1: had to walk to these people. They believe they owned
Speaker 1: the Rams, that they were the Rams, Daddy, and they
Speaker 1: were rocking around just it was like a coro nation.
Speaker 1: They were just it was a it was a nuisance.
Speaker 1: Danny that they had to play this game, and that
Speaker 1: they had to you know, they're gonna beat the Rams.
Speaker 1: Who cared. I saw a guy dressed up in a
Speaker 1: full uniform, this fat white guy dressed as Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 1: He had the full pants, the helmet, the jersey, the
Speaker 1: whole thing. A wild seat. Um, I'm walking walking through whatever,
Speaker 1: and uh and I it was. It was. It was great.
Speaker 1: Like even I got there four hours before the game
Speaker 1: because I wanted to watch the a f C Championship
Speaker 1: game from there. I didn't want to deal with the traffic,
Speaker 1: and so I got there four hours before kickoff, and
Speaker 1: uh it was. It was gridlock. And I didn't know
Speaker 1: really rather where to park. I just drove down Century
Speaker 1: Boulevard and figured I'd probably find the place at some point.
Speaker 1: I did. Uh and I actually because they took away
Speaker 1: all the parking for the Super Bowl. They were getting
Speaker 1: ready for the Super Bowl, and so they put us
Speaker 1: in this parking structure right near the NFL network. They
Speaker 1: have studios there. So Holy Andrews Siciliano, William mcguinnis, and
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner Batman. I mean they're all, oh, that's where
Speaker 1: those guys were here, So I ended up walking literally
Speaker 1: one and a half miles to the media will call
Speaker 1: to to pick up my past and the woman handling
Speaker 1: the PR I get to the PR window and you
Speaker 1: gotta show your driver's license and all this stuff to game,
Speaker 1: and uh, she starts laughing and she says, well, oh
Speaker 1: you're you're a Mallard And I said, yeah, do the
Speaker 1: doing overnight show at Fox Sports Radio. And she says,
Speaker 1: she tells the fun especially had ten minutes earlier, she
Speaker 1: hadn't mistakenly given my credential to somebody else named Mallard,
Speaker 1: and uh, it's like the Spider Man Mean comes live.
Speaker 1: And so I was like, well, you know what's going on?
Speaker 1: And uh, but you know, it was like the Spider
Speaker 1: Man Mean. And it turns out that one of my cousins,
Speaker 1: and I don't think I've told this story before on
Speaker 1: radio or the podcast. One of my cousins, Danny, is
Speaker 1: a very prominent senior producer at a popular tabloid TV
Speaker 1: show in Los Angeles, and very rarely do our pass
Speaker 1: cross because he covers entertainment and I cover sports. But
Speaker 1: this there were a lot of celebrities that happened to
Speaker 1: be at the Rams game, and so the tabloid TV
Speaker 1: shows and it's a small world after all, they sent
Speaker 1: him out there to document these celebrities, and so on
Speaker 1: this day everything lined up. And his name is Carrie.
Speaker 1: It's the same last name. He covers mostly like you know, entertainment, elections,
Speaker 1: you know, shootings, you name fires, a cacophney of other
Speaker 1: random things. And he actually did send me a text
Speaker 1: two say that he had his you know, he when
Speaker 1: he got his, he got my credentials. He thought it
Speaker 1: was it was pretty funny. But then the other thing
Speaker 1: was like it was like it was like a series
Speaker 1: of errors, Danny, because he's texting me and I don't
Speaker 1: talk to him that off. You know, we we used
Speaker 1: to go to bar Missfahs and things like that when
Speaker 1: we were kids, a little kids. And he's a little
Speaker 1: younger than me, I believe, I think it's younger than me.
Speaker 1: We're around the same age. And you know, he moved
Speaker 1: to the Midwest and then he came back to l A.
Speaker 1: And so we kind of lost track. We we we
Speaker 1: reconnected a few years back, but we don't talk that often.
Speaker 1: And so he's texting, He's like, hey, let's meet up.
Speaker 1: You know, the photop the Mallard cousin photop. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of family out here, most
Speaker 1: of them are dead. Uh So, so anyways, all right, whatever,
Speaker 1: and so he's like, hey, meet me here, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I can't get there. It turns out that
Speaker 1: he had different access to me. He had access to
Speaker 1: where the celebrities were, and I only was allowed like
Speaker 1: where the press box was in the field. I could
Speaker 1: go to the field, which was pretty cool, but I
Speaker 1: was like, meet me down here. It couldn't meet me
Speaker 1: um anyway. But so we just agreed to go to
Speaker 1: dinner or something like that, and we were at the
Speaker 1: same stadium but couldn't get to the same spot. And
Speaker 1: uh so, yeah, that was I mean, he also had
Speaker 1: different food, didn't you. Yeah, he must have. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he even stayed for the game.
Speaker 1: I think he was just there for the pregame and
Speaker 1: they were I guess a lot of celebrities showed him
Speaker 1: on TV. I didn't. I don't even know who most
Speaker 1: of these people are, but I guess they're famous and
Speaker 1: there they were there and they got the full television treatments.
Speaker 1: So there was that. Uh one fun final thing. I know,
Speaker 1: we're getting a little long in the tooth here on
Speaker 1: the Saturday edition from the fifth Hour, but the ten
Speaker 1: year old Benny's dream comes true and so As again
Speaker 1: relates that when I was growing up a Rams fan,
Speaker 1: fat little kid growing up in Orange County, and I
Speaker 1: envisioned myself playing on the offensive line for the Rams.
Speaker 1: Was convinced because I was fat, that I'd be on
Speaker 1: the offensive line for the Rams. When I when I
Speaker 1: was just gonna happen. You know, when you're a kid
Speaker 1: through the eyes of a child, and it was wearing
Speaker 1: Ram horns in my head. I was ready to go.
Speaker 1: And of course it never quite worked out. The football
Speaker 1: career went all the sideways on that for a myriad
Speaker 1: a myriad of reasons did not quite go my way.
Speaker 1: So anyway, when I was a kid, I told the
Speaker 1: story I used to go to RAMS training camp because
Speaker 1: I grew up in Irvine and the Rams trained at
Speaker 1: you see Irvine, So my mom it's a different time.
Speaker 1: My mom would drive me over there, dropped me off,
Speaker 1: and I'd spent all day wandering around the campus of
Speaker 1: use here mind really just the practice fields there, and
Speaker 1: have very fund members of that because it was a
Speaker 1: much softer, much softer time, I guess, uh then than
Speaker 1: the way it is now. But I remember, just like
Speaker 1: I gravitated the offensive line. There was very little security.
Speaker 1: It was during the week. There wasn't hardly anybody there.
Speaker 1: It's much there now you've been to training camp. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's like a corporate event, right, it's a whole thing.
Speaker 1: It's marketing. And it wasn't like that, PEPSI. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was just about practice. And this is so long ago.
Speaker 1: Back in the Bronze Age, they actually practiced twice a day.
Speaker 1: They had morning and afternoon practice early on like hell
Speaker 1: week NFL players. Can you imagine if they told the
Speaker 1: NFL players that they gotta practice in the morning and
Speaker 1: come back and practice in the afternoon, there would be upheaval.
Speaker 1: There would be mutiny on the bounty if they did that. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So they did back in those days, and it was
Speaker 1: cool when you're a kid, because you got to go
Speaker 1: to practice is in one day. You just had to
Speaker 1: kill time during the middle of the day before they
Speaker 1: came back the practice. So, you know, just gravitated the
Speaker 1: offensive So let's jump ahead now, we move ahead in
Speaker 1: the broadcast Danny. So from that's that's a little bit.
Speaker 1: That's for context. So I'm at the RAM forty nine game.
Speaker 1: I'm in the press box. I go to search for
Speaker 1: my seat. It's like that, you know when you start
Speaker 1: school and they post the classes in which classroom you
Speaker 1: need to go to the big pain So it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know where I'm sitting. So I'm trying to
Speaker 1: find my seat and abracadabra hocus poems. The Rams had
Speaker 1: assigned me a seat in the second row. When you're
Speaker 1: a radio guy and you get a seat in the
Speaker 1: second row, that's big Radio's third role. Third row. Radio's radio.
Speaker 1: Radio row is always like the worst part of the
Speaker 1: press box. They hate radio. They usually spit loogie's at
Speaker 1: radio people. But for some reason, I ended up in
Speaker 1: the second row, like this was a big deal. Danny
Speaker 1: Radio is usually the one talking shit about them. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So anyway, so I'm in the second row. So I'm
Speaker 1: sitting sitting next to me assigned by the Rams, number
Speaker 1: seventy eight in your program, Yeah, number one in your heart,
Speaker 1: the Great Jackie Slater Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: Offensive Lineman, Gold jacket Guy, the whole thing and a guy.
Speaker 1: When I was a little ten year old Benny and
Speaker 1: I got dropped off at RAM training camp. I watched
Speaker 1: Jackie Slater. I thought I was gonna be playing with
Speaker 1: Jackie Slater on the RAM offensive line. And here I
Speaker 1: am living ten year old Benny's childhood dream because for
Speaker 1: the next four hours, me and Jackie Slater are teammates,
Speaker 1: were teammates in the media, and damn it, we're the
Speaker 1: offensive line and we are there and and I'll I'll
Speaker 1: play guard. Jackie could play in the tackle position, and uh,
Speaker 1: and it was. He was very nice. I actually had
Speaker 1: under you Jackie before on the phone, but not in
Speaker 1: person where you know, I was feeding him stats and
Speaker 1: he he was doing some local TV in l A. So,
Speaker 1: but that being said, Danny, I did have one embarrassing,
Speaker 1: my embarrassing, but awkward situation with a great Jackie Slater.
Speaker 1: So the Rams, everyone brings up the forty niner player
Speaker 1: that dropped the interception, right that, yeah, we we what's
Speaker 1: his name, Tart? Yeah? Whatever. So the Rams also nobody
Speaker 1: brings us up because they won the game. But there
Speaker 1: were two dropped touchdown past and during one of them,
Speaker 1: and I think it was the Cooper Cup one he
Speaker 1: ended up with the touch somebody he missed a fingertip, Yes,
Speaker 1: that one. So I'm sitting there and Jackie Slater lets
Speaker 1: out this loud groan of disgust. Right now, keep in
Speaker 1: mind the press box and Sofi Stadium is encased encased
Speaker 1: in glass. There's no outside crowd noise, so it's kind
Speaker 1: it's not quiet quiet because you can kind of faintly
Speaker 1: hear the crowd a little bit, but it's not the
Speaker 1: outside ambiance of the stadium. So if we freaking sportswriter,
Speaker 1: every media person turns or you're never you're not supposed
Speaker 1: to cheer in the press box, right and Jackie's doing
Speaker 1: this thing. Andy one turns around and they're looking towards
Speaker 1: me because I'm next to Jackie, and um, they didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't think they put two and two together. It
Speaker 1: was very, very awkward, but that was that was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. It was a good time, and I
Speaker 1: got you talk to Jackie. He wants to do the podcast.
Speaker 1: He's he's cool to do it. So hopefully, if all
Speaker 1: goes well, maybe next week we'll have the great Jackie Slader.
Speaker 1: I think it'd be appropriate with the Rams in the
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. Get his perspective, yeah and everything.
Speaker 1: So I always see him on one of the l
Speaker 1: A TV stations here doing one of those sports rap shows. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what he was there. It was him. It was
Speaker 1: like if you're an old Rams fan from back in
Speaker 1: the day, it was I saw Vince Ferragamo was sitting there,
Speaker 1: and then Jackie Jackie Slater. So it's like nineteen late seventies,
Speaker 1: early eighties, right around that time Rams Rams football, So
Speaker 1: that was that was pretty neat. So it's pretty cool,
Speaker 1: and I think that's it right that we put the
Speaker 1: baby to bed for now. I was gonna do some
Speaker 1: pop quiz, but I think we've gone a little long
Speaker 1: on this. And so Ben, how nuts did the male
Speaker 1: dancers go on the Ram field after the big win? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know, Danny. Of all the things the Rams have
Speaker 1: done over the years, you will not when it comes
Speaker 1: to the male cheerleaders. And so are your favorite topics? Man?
Speaker 1: Uh you know, listen, no one's perfect. Humans are fallible
Speaker 1: and uh you know it all day and ram it
Speaker 1: all night. The Rams took that theme song too, seriously. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't ask me my perspective on that. But you
Speaker 1: know it's I guess I don't know, is that I
Speaker 1: candy for the women, I candy for the gay guys.
Speaker 1: I don't know what whatether into. Knock yourself out. I
Speaker 1: was more focused on the ladies. But there's a little
Speaker 1: bit for everything. Yeah, when I've heard about those male cheering,
Speaker 1: remember I think, were you with me when that happened?
Speaker 1: Was yeah, you anthem about it? Yeah it was Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was my reaction when I found out about that. Anyway,
Speaker 1: have a great rest your Saturday. We've got a mail bag,
Speaker 1: big mail bag on Sunday. Looking forward to that, and
Speaker 1: there's nothing else for the you know, you know, a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl weekend and Pro Bowl with speaking of the
Speaker 1: Death Star, that's where the Pro Bowl is happening Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: congratulations to your lambs. Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: And I really feel bad, though, Danny for the trolls
Speaker 1: because they every week they get so excited. They were
Speaker 1: worked into a lather. They were convinced, Danny, when the
Speaker 1: Niners had a ten point lead going to the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter they were going to be winners. Who We're going
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl, We're the Niners. Instead, Ben was
Speaker 1: doing his chocolate he wasted dance at the candy bar.
Speaker 1: I was loving that, I I flashed back to fat Benny.
Speaker 1: I was, yeah, I was really enjoying that. But I
Speaker 1: only I only ate like a like a pig for
Speaker 1: two hours and then I cut it down. So I
Speaker 1: feel like, all things considered, because back in the old days, Danny,
Speaker 1: I would have eaten literally for six consecutive hours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I stuffed your pockets. You would have wrapped
Speaker 1: things in napkins. There would have been leftover food stuffed
Speaker 1: in your computer bag. Oh exactly exactly. It was like,
Speaker 1: you know, it was like getting the daily double. And
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, al right, uh yeah, anyway, it'd
Speaker 1: be well and stay safe and all that good stuff
Speaker 1: will catch you on the mail bag on Sunday. Bye bye,
Speaker 1: Folation