WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Ralph Irvin, Let Elvis Take the Wheel 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:05.600 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:09.400 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:13.080 the old republic a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:15.960 crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:20.360 pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:24.240 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:34.080 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, and welcome in. 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:39.000 A new weekend is upon us a fresh batch of 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.440 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio. 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:51.440 Before you say, please, please, before you do that, calm down, 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:58.160 we have a bunch of somewhat decent audio content for you. 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:03.600 And the weekend begin ends right now and Friday. We 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.479 like to talk to people who we've heard of, people 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:12.319 on the podcast who we think you'll want to hear from. 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.720 And the last week we had a great time. It 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:20.160 was very exciting. Joey Chestnuts a man who went out 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.560 and scarfed down all kinds of hot dogs and buns. 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:29.720 He was attacked by a protester. He put that person 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:34.040 in a choke hold and then still one by double 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.800 digits hot dog and buns for another mustard belt his 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:43.800 fifteen title. So congratulations to my new friend Joey Chestnut. 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.600 Was great to have him on the podcast and that 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.560 did very well, and we thank you for listening and 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.120 telling friends about that and said, hey, I got this 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.680 little dumb podcast thing. I listened to the Fifth Hour. 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.600 You might want to check it out. And we thank you. 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.120 We do, thank you for that. So it's upward and 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:04.880 onward in the podcast game and this Friday show, the 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.400 show you're listening to right now. We decided to do 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:13.400 something somewhat different. We bring in one of our colleagues 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:19.400 I can still say that from Fox Sports Radio, Ralph Irvin. 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.960 Now Ralph has a big announcement that he is going 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:27.079 to make on our podcast on the Fifth Hour podcast. 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.080 Not too shabby. Um, So we're gonna welcome in a 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.079 man who has worked for a number of years at 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.640 Fox Sports Radio. I've known Ralph since we were early 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.680 on in our careers. We both got started in San 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:43.639 Diego at the mighty six ninety, a legendary West Coast 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.920 sports talker. We cut our teeth at that radio station. 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.640 We know many of the same people. Radio is a 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.359 small fraternity. Ralph has gone on. He worked in Orlando. 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.160 He worked for u C l A and their video department, 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.040 and he's worked at several other radio stations. He's very 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:02.680 active in golf. He's filled in not not in years, 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.839 but he's filled in on our overnight show when Eddie 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:09.680 has been away Corporate Garcia and I thought, let's get 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.959 the man, the myth, the legend, Ralph urban On and Ralph, 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:16.680 we welcome you and and I'm upset with you. Ralph. 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.639 I tried to get you on. You you were harder 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:25.519 to book than Joey Chestnut. I had to jump through 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.760 hoops to get you on, Ralph. Can you please explain 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:34.560 why it was so difficult to get you? Ralph Irvin 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:39.000 on the Fifth Hour podcast with me your buddy Big Ben. 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:44.000 Why is that, Ralph? Because you forgot my number. That's incorrect. 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.920 I did not forget your number. I ran into you 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.640 at the Fox Sports Radio studios. I was trying to 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.960 enjoy a nice meal and you came by. You were 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:58.839 wearing Hawaiian shirt a few weeks ago. Possibly yes, yeah, 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:05.000 remember the great power outage at the Fox Sports Radio studio. Yeah, 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.040 we have those occasionally. Well, they made me come in, Ralph, 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.640 and there was no reason for me to be there. 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.120 The power was back on right before the show start, 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.719 like two hours before the show. But but I was there. 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.440 And there's always a good reason to be in the studio. 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.600 It's called professional radio time. I'm in a studio. I 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:28.880 have a microphone, I have headphones, I have I have everything. 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.960 I have a board over here, I have that. I 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:36.240 have a there's a keyboard. Um, I'm looking. There's a 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:41.359 computer here. There's a light. There's several lights. There's like 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.880 a weird fan off to the side. There's a thing 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.920 of pens that that I let me show you. It's 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.680 I know we're on audio, but actually you can see 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:55.720 me so sec here I have Look how big that 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.080 pen is? Ralph? Is that? Are you not impressed by 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.320 the size of my pen? Come on, be honest, you're Ralph, 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:05.040 I'm not in It's a pen. No, it's a beautiful pen. 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:09.000 It's a large, giant, cartoon sized pen like this awesome. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.840 See like I have big hands, but this pen makes 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.080 it look like I have a little baby hands, like 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:21.760 little Kyler Murray hands. Yeah. Sure, all right with you, Ron, 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:25.000 I mean you're doing this, this is a podcast about you. 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.080 Everything's great. Are you sure? About that. It's about me 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:33.080 that we're talking about your pen. Well, it's just a 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:34.960 warm up. I'm just warming up with the pen. I 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:39.159 feel like Ralph. Once you see my pen, you know 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.560 now we're we're bonding. We're gonna bond again like the 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:49.320 old days. Sure, sure sounds good, Yeah, exactly exactly. All right, Well, 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.440 the real reason I'm having you on the podcast is 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.160 you had a big Have you announced this publicly or 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.760 my are we announcing this on the Fifth Hour podcast? 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.839 A major story one this gets in the radio trades. 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:06.520 Mm hmm. It's it's gonna blow up the industry, it 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.080 really is. And are you prepared to make that announcement 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:16.240 right now? It's it's it's it's known that. Yeah, I'm 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:23.240 I'm leaving Fox Sports Radio. So Ralph Irvin is leaving 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.640 our dysfunctional radio. This is big news, Ralph. I don't 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:30.559 think you realize how big this is. I I guess 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.520 I don't. I guess I don't. I'm just I'm just 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:35.920 a cog in the machine. I'm just a guy who 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.919 comes to work and does his thing. Yeah, so I 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:40.880 have questions. Are you prepared? I'm gonna grill you. I'm 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.279 gonna give you. This is Ralph to the third degree. Sure, 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.600 all right, So the obvious question is how how did 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.440 you come to this decision? Ralph? I mean to leave 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.800 Fox Sports Radio. It's a big deal, Like how long 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.560 has this been going on? Where you you had, you know, 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.360 the idea that you're gonna leave, and how long did 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.120 this come about? Well, this is more a case of 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.600 as you know, you're in this industry, uh, that you 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:13.320 can move around, you go from job to job. Now 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.240 you haven't gone too far. You've stayed in southern California. 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.040 I think you your entire career, I've moved. I've gone 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.120 from San Diego to Orlando back to l A, different 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.760 places around l A. And one thing that's been consistent 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.760 is my wife has followed me everywhere I've gone. And 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:34.320 she received an opportunity, uh to get a better job 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.760 in a new city, and I told her you go 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.360 for it. I fully supported. And you've followed me around 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.920 all these years. It's my turn to do the same, 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.720 and I will follow you. So it uh affords a 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.720 new opportunity, totally new lifestyle and probably one that doesn't 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.920 involve broadcasting ever again, which is all right. It's something 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:01.320 that will be absolutely new and funics writing. So you're 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.840 leaving broadcasting, this is this is it? This is your 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.640 last weekend as a broadcaster. You say, is that true? 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.520 Really that as as far as I can tell, that's 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:13.240 that's it. Yeah, I'm gonna try to go and sit 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:17.000 behind a desk and do work and contribute to other ways. 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.240 But well that's no fun Ralph for radio guys. Were 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.200 a couple of radio guys here. This is all we know, 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:27.160 Ralph is microphones and nonsense and goofing around. And oh 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.160 I've known a little bit more than radio because I've 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:34.040 been doing video work for the last fifteen years. So 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:39.199 it's it's it's a case of building something that's not 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:43.600 just day to day. It's building something bigger. Products and 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.160 things of that nature is you know, I've done a 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.840 lot of work with golf and talking about golf products, 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.360 and you get to know the people that design and 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.960 build these products, and they put a lot of themselves 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.959 into each one, and you think, wow, that would be 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.040 kind of cool to be able to do something where 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.360 I have a lasting legacy within whatever it is that 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.840 I've built, and that's kind of an interest of mine 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.680 going forward. Well, that's cool, and you're a romantic ralph. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.200 You're you're following your your your wife, she followed you, 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.679 and now you're following. That's a tremendous thing that you're 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.040 doing here. Well, she's a lot more successful than I am. 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:21.679 That helps me, makes it, It makes a lot easier. Yeah, 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.520 that's good. Do you want to reveal where you're going 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.360 or you want to be a big mysteries the FBI 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.360 out to get you? That are the authorities going to 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.080 run you down or something like that? Are you worried 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.839 about that? Because you know I'm going to to America's 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.920 playground that is Las Vegas. Oh is that right? Lost, 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:40.040 Lost Wages, Nevada, Yes, standing where I have a number 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:41.840 of friends that are living there that are excited that 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.000 I will be coming out and joining them. So more importantly, 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.960 route this is a place I visit Vegas. So we'll 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.600 we'll still get to hang out again. We'll probably hang 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:54.280 out more with you when you get set up in 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:58.280 Vegas than we do now, because you know geography wise 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.400 where you live and I don't ever say where I 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.040 live other than the north Woods. And I've moved a 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.040 lot over the years. I've lived in the l are. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.400 I've lived all over l A. But we're pretty far 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.760 apart right now, like where we live. I think I 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.520 get to Vegas more than I get to where you 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.440 live in the l A area. Well, no, because yeah 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.600 you don't. We don't allow you into where I live. 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.120 That's we We kind of have signs up keep this 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:25.320 man away. And rightfully so I did try. There's a 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:29.360 famous lake not that far away from where you live 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:35.560 where they filmed robin Hood the original and uh, and 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:37.640 I saw it. I was I was going out of 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.280 your way. I think it was for Jonas is uh 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:44.120 wedding thing, the receptions. I went out of your way 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.440 and we were at Jonas's wedding, and so I said, 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:48.439 I'm out here. I'm never really out this way anymore, 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.760 so let me go see. They have this lake, famous lake. 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.960 What's it called. What's the name of the Lakewood Lake? Sherwood. Yeah, 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.320 that's so they filmed a bunch of movies and stuff. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.600 So I thought I'd go, it's a lake. I'll go 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:01.760 check out the lake. And I tried to get I 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.480 could not get anywhere close to like you're only if 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.240 you live there. There's like this exclusive neighbor where Wayne 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:12.640 Gretzky and some other big celebrities living used to live there. Well, 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.400 Lenny has been on the podcast, you know Lenny's Lenny 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.720 has been on his foy. He won't return my calls anymore. Though. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.319 I don't know what happened to Lenny Len He used 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.120 to get He always wanted to come on the podcast, 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.360 and then I tried to reach out to him a 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.400 couple of weeks ago and he didn't get back to 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.559 It's a bad job by Lenny that Did you talk 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.440 to him? Is that what happened right now? I did 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.959 not talk to Lenny. I have not talked to Lenny, 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.480 but he did live but in Lake Sherwood. Yeah, it's 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.480 a beautiful lake. Nice. I could actually go check it, 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.959 actually get close to the water. Other than the up top, 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.000 I have to look over a fence like a peeping 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.760 lake guy or something like that. Well, that's that's sometimes 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.920 what you have to be. Is that true? Well for you, yes, 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.480 not not so much for me. I I know people 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:00.360 and have access. You're you're a cool person, You're much 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.280 cooler than me. But you're leaving all that behind Vegas. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.559 Are you a gambler? It's yeah, a little bit I 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:11.520 like to play craps, but it's not something that I 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.439 need or want to do a lot. So it's not 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.480 a big deal. I mean, yeah, you know, we were 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.559 in southern California. If we want to gamble, we could 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.240 gamble places closer than Las Vegas. We don't want to. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.840 It's about going to Las Vegas and you do things there. 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.520 But I've traveled there so much over the years that 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:31.240 i have my spots away from the Strip, away from 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.640 all the touristy areas, and so that's not a big change. 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.360 It's not like I'm going there and thinking I'm gonna 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.959 be hanging out in Las Vegas Boulevard. That's not it 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.839 at all. Yeah. My my aunt used to live in Vegas, 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.640 and you know, she was around but and and the 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.040 locals always there's like weird, strange casinos away from the 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.800 Strip where like the local people go, they don't bother 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.160 with the there are some Yeah, so you already have 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.160 your place set up in Vegas for the big you relocation, 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.559 You're already ready to go. You're looking for a new place. 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.120 There's a temporary set up right now, but it'll be 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.760 looking for a for a house in the future. Yeah, 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:08.840 what if somebody says, hey, Ralph, we want you to 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.760 work on the radio in Vegas with you. I will 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.160 ask them how much they have in their bank account 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.520 and then they will tell you the amount, and then 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.439 you'll start laughing and I will say, that's why I'm 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.880 no longer in broadcasting. Yes, let's just say that we 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:28.240 have a mutual acquaintance that is in Las Vegas that 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.480 has talked to me for years about coming out and saying, oh, 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.760 you could be on the air, no problem right away, 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:36.560 but they wouldn't really be able to pay you. And 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:40.440 I'm like, okay, well, yeah, Vegas is a weird market 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.880 because it's become a very large city. I have some 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.240 friends that do radio in Vegas and I've done I've 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:50.000 done the show remotely from Vegas and it's it's like 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.559 a big city. But they don't treat the radio stuff 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:56.440 like it's a big city. Well, it's a big city 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:01.760 that still hasn't taken understanding of how big they are. 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:06.120 For instance, uh, Tim Laiwicky is building a new arena 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.719 reportedly there in Las Vegas, and they want to put 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.840 an NBA team in and where he has chosen the 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:15.120 arena location is not in the middle of the strip, 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.640 and people are like, why would you do this, why 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.320 would you make tourists drive away? And the thinking is 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:25.160 because it's not for the tourists, Like, like, if you 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:29.040 live in Las Vegas, you actually do deserve the right 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.400 to have a team that's your own, that's not built 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:35.240 for tourists. You can have your own, your own arena, 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.840 and your own city. And I don't think they've quite 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:43.720 grasped that aspect yet, that they deserve the fruits that 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:45.800 come with being a big city. I think they still 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.520 think that they are there to serve all the visitors 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:52.680 from around the world, and it's an evolution for sure. Yeah, 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.080 well that is true. But I'm still upset when the 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.640 Hockey Arena was built behind New York, New York, and 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:01.680 then they started charging for parking around the You have 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.160 to get a credit card to get free parking and 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.440 not don't even know if that's still a thing, but oh, 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.720 it's a thing. It's a thing. I hate, Ralph, You've 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:11.520 known me a long time. I hate paying for parking. 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.280 You hate paying for anything. Well, that is true. That's 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:18.960 why I am the frugal the frugal man, the tight 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.600 wad whatever you want to say there. No, it's it's 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.760 it's it's a case where again the locals that I 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.440 know are like, no, we we don't even bother trying 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:33.280 to park there. We we take our uber and yeah, understandable, understandable. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.280 I often talk when I talked about Ralph, I I 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.080 when I talk about you, Ralph, I always talk about 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.040 the fact that we started out. We look products of 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.640 the mighty six ninety one of the great sports radio station, 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.480 the first West Coast, one of the great I mean, 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.920 let's be real, let's let's just let's cut the crap. 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.480 It's the greatest sports station that ever existed, damn right. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:16:00.640 And look at the legends that you Ralph of a legend, uh, 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:05.600 you know, and uh Steve Hartman, Homer Hartman and uh 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:09.080 and all them. Uh. It's been been wonderful. And a 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.040 lot of the people, although we're getting older, Ralph, a 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.120 lot of the people still working in the business who 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:18.280 were there. Almost all of them, yeah, I mean almost 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:22.200 all of them are still active in in in major radio. 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:27.720 I mean a morning show that's still on in Los Angeles, 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.120 some guy named Jim Rome. I think he's done, okay, 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.640 hanging in there. I think he's got enough money. I 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:39.400 think maybe not. Hartman's around still, and you know, if 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.680 you if you follow online, you can still find the 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:46.160 old mentor has has has been on this podcast has 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.720 as I am. The thing about Hacks and we I worked, 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.520 I was an intern with him. You were there at 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.280 the same around the same time. But Hacks of the 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:57.080 work ethic and people say I work hard, But like 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:01.200 hacksall was in there all day. We're recording stuff and 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.120 that's the work I mean, I I am. I worked 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.960 somewhat hard, but compared to Hacks on the amount of effort. 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.439 And he's still got a website where he's he does 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.320 his headlines. That was what he was known for back 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:17.160 in San Diego. But he still does that every day, 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.040 just does it written out. He doesn't do it on 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.280 the broadcasting, but wouldn't you really like to see it 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:25.240 written out? Like he just posted a pdf every day 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:29.320 of the way that he would write his headlines. He 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.040 had this piece of paper with this writing that so 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.720 tiny so that he could get every single little headline 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:39.240 on there uh written out in one little sheet of paper, 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.000 so he didn't have to change sheets of paper. And 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.000 this little tiny writing I think that would be hilarious 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.320 as if that's what he posted for his headlines, just 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.480 a PDF you could zoom in on and try to 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.520 make out his notes. Well, yeah, because he had the 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.160 chicken scratch going. And that was back in the archaic 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.240 days though, Ralph like, we're so old. They had the 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.320 high speed sports wire, they had the sports picker, Like 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.440 they don't even have that, Like radio stations don't have those. 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.439 They don't need them anymore because of the Internet. But 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:07.840 that was like, that was one of the coolest things. 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:09.720 When I started working there. I was like, oh man, 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.320 this is the high speed sports wire. And because you 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.640 couldn't get that information, you sit down at a computer 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.080 and there was live scores right there in front of you. Yeah. 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.840 And and but we're like, we're like the I had 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:24.880 to walk ten miles in the snow up the hill. 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.560 We did radio before the Internet, and we're able to 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:33.479 pull it off kind of Uh. I was gathering recently 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.000 where we were talking about old things and talking about 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:38.520 you know, you had these cards and you had to 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.119 stack these cards up, you know, a mile high, with 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.280 all your commercials and your sound bites. And this is 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:48.560 before everything was digitized for sure, we we went. When 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.960 I was producing a show that we did called Extra 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:55.520 Football Sunday. We did after we lost the Chargers rights 0:18:55.800 --> 0:19:04.679 in um we Well, I set up recording locations for 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:08.720 every NFL game with giant reel to reel otari reel 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:12.520 to reel recording machines so that we could record highlights 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.920 and get them onto the air. It was, I mean, 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.200 it was archaic, but it was. It sounded great you. 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.280 It didn't sound any worse than it does today. It 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:26.160 just took a lot more effort and a lot more space. Yeah, 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:27.840 that was one of my first one. I was an intern. 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.040 I had to pull the commercials. I had the commercial 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:32.000 log and I had to pull the spots for the 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.199 for the engineer. That was my my gig. I was 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:38.200 very good at pulling commercial And they call them spots 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:42.320 because they little little spot on little dot. I told 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:45.000 you what number they were color coded. We're doing We're 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.199 doing old guy radio talk here. Just sure was doing 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.480 old guy radio talk. Yeah. Did you ever cut yourself 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:52.800 with a razor blade cutting the reel, the reel, the 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:55.639 tape and all that. No, I I wasn't clumsy, No, 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:57.919 I I never had that issue. I was I have 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.359 fat fingers. I cut myself all the time. I was terrible. 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:02.040 I was so happy when they got rid of that stuff, 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:03.800 but I was so piste off at the same time 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:06.359 because I learned when I got into the business, I 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:10.520 learned cards, editing, you know, the real, the real, all that. 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:14.320 And within a couple of years of me starting, he 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:17.159 started shifting over to digital. And I was like, what, 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:19.879 I spent all this time learning all this stuff, and 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:21.800 the only way I'll use it is I'm at like 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:24.680 a small radio station in Oklahoma, which probably still uses 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.879 that stuff. I'm sure. I want to say it was 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:31.399 about five years from the time I started to the 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:34.200 time that that that the computer system was coming in. 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.080 Here's the funny part. That computer system is what we 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:40.960 still use today twenty plus years later. Oh yeah, well 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:44.720 that's that's a whole different conversation, Ralph. Yeah. That that 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.200 I I'm gonna write a book someday. When I walked 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:52.840 into Fox Sports Radio, we that studio which you're leaving 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.639 and you're gonna leave radio and do great things. But 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:59.280 that studio. We walked in there and it was like, 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:02.040 oh my god, this is amazing. They had ribbons, everything 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:05.000 was brand new, When I started at Fox Sports Radio, 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:08.280 we were in a premier network studio upstairs on the 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.359 fifth floor. It was the old Michael Reagan, the President's 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.040 adopted son. He had a radio show and we did 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.240 the show from his studio. Are all the Fox Sports 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:19.359 radio shows until they had built the studio on the 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:21.879 ground floor and that thing opened up, and it was 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:24.320 like they were bringing in executives from around the country. 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.080 It was like the and all the newest equipment, and 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:29.800 here we are twenty two years later and it's the 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:33.960 same the same equipment, and uh it's uh yeah, but 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:37.880 the goodness. Eventually they will move to a new studio 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:41.359 possibly The fun The fun thing though, is we talked 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.920 about Extra six ninety. They built the Fox Sports Radio 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:49.240 studios to look just like the Extra six nineties studios. 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:52.639 I mean all the way from from from the board 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:56.399 the where the technical director the board operator sits, that 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:59.359 whole area, to to the studio that it was built 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:03.040 to look just Extra Sports six nine. The one flaw 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:08.160 on that, though, is the update booth. It's not visible. 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:10.840 Yeah yeah, so I always I point this out when 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:13.679 you were filling for Eddie or when Eddie's there, whenever, 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:18.800 and if I'm in studio, I can't see the the 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:22.159 guy that's doing the news, and so it's like this 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:25.240 will be at home, I can see the same thing. 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:28.080 So well. I mean, you also then would complain to 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:30.640 management if if you saw too much of me, if 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:33.080