Speaker 1: Kabooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right.
Speaker 3: Now in the air everywhere, live on tape from Radio ro.
Speaker 1: In Vegas, Super Bowl fifty eight.
Speaker 4: The show continues, Danny g right there, you got me,
Speaker 4: big Ben. As we're hanging out here as there's a
Speaker 4: lot of movement and shaking and all that stuff where
Speaker 4: we are scheduled to have someone on the podcast later.
Speaker 1: Danny, Yes, we don't know exactly who. We're not sure
Speaker 1: if they don't name, are you know?
Speaker 5: Little he told me who it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well we'll see what happened to you.
Speaker 4: I have to keep listening to the podcast, but I
Speaker 4: I did have somebody for the first time ever. Usually
Speaker 4: people come up to me, they'll say you look like
Speaker 4: some random like old like baseball player, like I got
Speaker 4: a lot of John Lackey references. But I was walking around, uh,
Speaker 4: and this guy came up to me. He's like, hey,
Speaker 4: I thought I was one of the guys from that
Speaker 4: that History Channel show Okay Flusters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it's because of the hat.
Speaker 5: You look like the guy from Pond Stars too. I'll
Speaker 5: do it so our our guest booker lead. Maybe she
Speaker 5: could walk you around later and get you on some
Speaker 5: other shows.
Speaker 1: Yes, the Pond Stars look like a reality show.
Speaker 4: That would be That would be good. The money from
Speaker 4: the reality show. Well, you were on TV this week,
Speaker 4: Danny Reay. I saw a photo on social media. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he got off the plane.
Speaker 5: It was cool. As soon as we got off the plane,
Speaker 5: this reporter ran up to me and there was a
Speaker 5: bright light and a camera in my face and she said,
Speaker 5: so you're all raided out. Which team are you going
Speaker 5: to root for in the Super Bowl? And I told
Speaker 5: her neither. I hate those colors. And it was kind
Speaker 5: of cool. She was joking around with me about you
Speaker 5: know what it would be like in the city of
Speaker 5: Las Vegas as a Raider fan with those two red
Speaker 5: teams here in the building.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. So you didn't see it though,
Speaker 1: you don't know if you made the actual cut.
Speaker 5: Her camera guy afterwards told me this will be on
Speaker 5: Channel thirteen later and I was like, okay, cool, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't who knows if I was on the cutting
Speaker 5: room floor or not.
Speaker 1: Though maybe something. Maybe some of their website you can
Speaker 1: check out.
Speaker 5: I have such a punchable face. I doubt they used
Speaker 5: the footage. Oh, come on, they probably did. They probably
Speaker 5: used it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So we're obviously here hanging out for the super
Speaker 1: Bowl and the TV show which is airing today, and
Speaker 1: this is the last weekend Benny versus the Penny. You
Speaker 1: can check that out.
Speaker 4: So I did a bunch of research for the TV
Speaker 4: show for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I finally, so this is yeah, exactly, since this, I
Speaker 1: gotta use.
Speaker 4: This stuff because it's all gonna be dated tomorrow by tomorrow, right,
Speaker 4: so I gotta use something.
Speaker 1: I thought, this is interesting because everyone's gonna.
Speaker 4: Be watching this thing, and some of the stuff I've
Speaker 4: used on the TV show, but not all of these
Speaker 4: are the interesting things. Danny, and we'll just do a
Speaker 4: few minutes of the interesting things about Super Bowl fifty
Speaker 4: eight to get you ready for the game. So, the
Speaker 4: forty nine ers, who are a slight favorite in this
Speaker 4: game over Kansas City have been favored in every single
Speaker 4: game they played this season, and they are favored, as
Speaker 4: we said in the super Bowl. But is it true, Danny,
Speaker 4: they actually have a losing record. If you're a gambler,
Speaker 4: that is true. They are nine to ten against the spread,
Speaker 4: So you know, typically if you're a truly dominant team,
Speaker 4: you can dominate the point spread. But the Niners have
Speaker 4: not been able to dominate that. So if you would
Speaker 4: actually have a losing record betting on Kansas City this year.
Speaker 4: Another thing is interesting brock perty and I think I
Speaker 4: mentioned this on the TV show. If you watched it,
Speaker 4: you can verify that. But he's actually played worse on
Speaker 4: the road. I know this is technically a neutral side game,
Speaker 4: but it's a road game. The forty nine ers are
Speaker 4: staying at a hotel or they.
Speaker 1: Fly in and all that.
Speaker 4: And yeah, so brock Purty is his negative drop back rate,
Speaker 4: which is I think got a stat for everything, twenty
Speaker 4: three percent, and that's actually just in the postseason, and
Speaker 4: those are the home games. And if that had been
Speaker 4: the regular season, worst of all, worst of all quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: In the NFL.
Speaker 4: So he's not he's winning, but he hasn't been playing
Speaker 4: that great and he's had his worst performances actually on
Speaker 4: the road.
Speaker 1: If you look at the regular season. So I know
Speaker 1: that was interesting.
Speaker 4: And Patrick Mahomes on the other side in the in
Speaker 4: Allegian Stadium, Danny, and you know this as a Raider fan.
Speaker 4: He's played there four times and he's four to ozher
Speaker 4: in that stadium and he has ten touchdown passes and
Speaker 4: one interception in that building.
Speaker 5: Do you think Patrick Mahomes is going to vomit all
Speaker 5: over his or do you think he'll show up in
Speaker 5: crunch time the way he's been known to do.
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, I'm picking Kansas City, so I trust him more.
Speaker 4: Plus like the forty nine Ers defenses, and this was
Speaker 4: the story this week, they weren't even playing hard in
Speaker 4: the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 1: How do you not do that? What's up with that?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: You can't play hard in the NFC Championship game? My goodness. Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm picking the and the Chiefs on the other hand,
Speaker 1: they have a great record when they've been an underdog
Speaker 1: with Patrick Mahomes ten one and one against suspend. I
Speaker 1: mean to give you all kinds of random numbers.
Speaker 4: I mentioned brock Purty has the most negative graded drop
Speaker 4: backs in the playoffs. But Patrick Mahomes I actually on
Speaker 4: the TV show, I predicted, we did some prop bets.
Speaker 4: I did predict he's gonna have an interception. He said,
Speaker 4: zero turnover worthy throws. They keep track of that stuff
Speaker 4: too in the in the postseason so far, and he's not.
Speaker 4: He's it's the last six games in the playoffs he
Speaker 4: hasn't had an interception.
Speaker 1: So there is that's the longest streak in the NFL. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how about that? You got crickets. You're staring at me.
Speaker 1: What is wrong with you?
Speaker 6: Daddy?
Speaker 1: You have no no other stories. That's it. You're done.
Speaker 1: You've been here all week and you don't have anything.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 5: You know what I see?
Speaker 1: I see Arthur Blanco. He's wearing a red jacket. Oh,
Speaker 1: that looks like a smoking jackets. He's the guy that
Speaker 1: started Home Depot. That guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, imagine how much money he's got right start Home Depot.
Speaker 5: Two nights ago, got to go see the Ti Femo
Speaker 5: fight and the crowd was booing, even even his fans
Speaker 5: were booing on Ben because he was fighting Ortiz and
Speaker 5: Ortiz danced around in the ring the entire twelve rounds,
Speaker 5: pulled to de la Hoya, especially at the end. He
Speaker 5: just didn't want h T. Femo to get a fist
Speaker 5: anywhere near and so it was one of those fights
Speaker 5: where you could tell the puncher TiO was frustrated and
Speaker 5: Ortiz just didn't want to. He's a good they call
Speaker 5: him the technician. He's got good boxing skills, but he
Speaker 5: ran around the ring the whole time.
Speaker 1: Boo.
Speaker 5: The Mandalay Bay Event Center was just booing NonStop. I
Speaker 5: don't know if you're into boxing that much, but no,
Speaker 5: I like.
Speaker 1: I'm more into boxing than like in the MMA, stough
Speaker 1: not as much.
Speaker 5: So this is straight boxing. And I sat next year
Speaker 5: boy Rob Parker.
Speaker 1: The Great Rob, and must have been free tickets.
Speaker 5: Free tickets, Well, it's funny you should say that. Not
Speaker 5: just free tickets to get in, but they had these
Speaker 5: meal cards where you could get a food menu item
Speaker 5: of your choice and a free drink. So some of
Speaker 5: us in the Covino and rich party didn't even get
Speaker 5: a meal ticket. Guess how many Rob had. He had
Speaker 5: a stack of them in his wallet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I came here last timer was here.
Speaker 4: A couple of weeks ago was Rob's birthday party and
Speaker 4: it was unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: He had an open open bar, promoted open.
Speaker 4: Bar, and as I think we talked about two tickets
Speaker 4: to drink tickets.
Speaker 1: To me, that's not an open bar. But I don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe it is, you know, maybe it is. And
Speaker 4: the vegan meatballs thing that also blew me away. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean I actually wasn't bad. Just put enough tomato
Speaker 4: marinera song.
Speaker 5: You're making me hungry. Yeah, you're making me hungry right now.
Speaker 5: So to change the subject just for a second. We
Speaker 5: know who you picked now, you picked the Chiefs. Yes,
Speaker 5: while you are here in Las Vegas, are you going
Speaker 5: to wager any of your hard earned TV dollars?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So I am planning on putting a little money down,
Speaker 4: a little money down, but I'm not gonna you know,
Speaker 4: I'm not likely.
Speaker 5: Yeah kind of cash were talking here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, i'd be I'd make a couple of small bets.
Speaker 4: I'll bet on some props, like I'll definitely bet on
Speaker 4: the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: I came here two like a three. Yeah, that's all
Speaker 1: that's all I know.
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: Oh, is that Sham's over there? Sham's Sharani walking around.
Speaker 4: That's what the hell is he doing here? He's a
Speaker 4: basketball guy? What the hell is that? What is there
Speaker 4: an NBA with the NBA trade deadline was a few
Speaker 4: days ago?
Speaker 6: What is he?
Speaker 1: Maybe he was gonna get in the NFL, is gonna take.
Speaker 5: Adam Schefter's job or what is That's the place to
Speaker 5: be no matter what sports shams.
Speaker 4: That's people I did not expect to see at the
Speaker 4: at the super Bowl. And the great Dave Singer over
Speaker 4: there by the way, who he worked with him in
Speaker 4: San Diego at the mighty six ninety in San Diego.
Speaker 5: I saw our good buddy a Rash the other day.
Speaker 1: Great Rosch MARCOSI. Yeah, he's got a place here in Vegas.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And but now instead of a throng of women models
Speaker 5: following him around, yeah, because he's like their best they're
Speaker 5: my best friend. Now his fiance follows him around, right,
Speaker 5: honest thing? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh good, Yeah, I'm happy. I've I've known Rosh was
Speaker 1: my intern at the at the station back in the
Speaker 1: day at AM eleven fifty.
Speaker 5: That's right, you're the pummeler of producers.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I remember him kicking a soccer ball in
Speaker 1: the hall. Oh there's Mark Myers. Look at this which
Speaker 1: are dropping random names people. Mark Myers just walking around aimlessly.
Speaker 5: Ben is media watching right now.
Speaker 4: It's like being at the zoo. Psych We're pulling the
Speaker 4: head fake. Now, we were going to have on a
Speaker 4: NFL player who were not going to name because the
Speaker 4: guy blew us off. He ran past us or ghost
Speaker 4: us or whatever you want to say. So in his place,
Speaker 4: I'm actually more excited to talk to this person. I've
Speaker 4: known this guy longer than almost anyone at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4: We're going to take you behind the scenes at Super
Speaker 4: Bowl fifty eight. The network has been here all day,
Speaker 4: every day, well except late nights. From Beautiful Lost Wages Nevada.
Speaker 4: Mike Lingard, Big Mike, Who you know?
Speaker 1: It's Big Mike. Hi, Mike, Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 6: Ben Miller?
Speaker 4: Now, you didn't play for the Carolina Panthers, but in
Speaker 4: my head you did because I first met you.
Speaker 1: You always wore Carolina Panther gear.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Absolutely, I'm a big Panthers fan.
Speaker 1: Yes I know, and but you don't. Now you're professional.
Speaker 4: Now, you're like management, right, so you don't wear it
Speaker 4: as much because you know you've got to represent the company.
Speaker 1: Correct, So you can't do that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I'm not. I'm not out here in my panthers, gear.
Speaker 6: I got business business to attend.
Speaker 1: Professional.
Speaker 4: You're professional, You're not some amateur, no, sir, So I've
Speaker 4: had I can tell this story now with you and
Speaker 4: for those who don't know, Mike, what is your role
Speaker 4: at the company you've been I've known you for many,
Speaker 4: many years, and you you like to me, I know
Speaker 4: you as like the god of the editing wing. Right,
Speaker 4: You're sure you do a lot of that stuff and
Speaker 4: you do a multiple roles.
Speaker 6: Well, the best part is I don't actually have to
Speaker 6: do much editing anymore. I'm more supervising the staff. And
Speaker 6: so my official title is the uh, I'm the executive
Speaker 6: News to direct and Operations manager at Fox Sports Radio Network.
Speaker 1: That's a big title. Yeah, that's a sexy title.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a sexy title they give me instead of
Speaker 6: giving me more money. Right, that is not how it works.
Speaker 1: I can't take you, my man, not, I hear you.
Speaker 6: So, yeah, my job is basically to make sure everybody
Speaker 6: has what they need in order to make the magic,
Speaker 6: the radio magic happen.
Speaker 4: Audio go, that's right, string it into audio go on
Speaker 4: a nightly basis, and you have had a similar experience
Speaker 4: to me because I had. I've been in radio long time,
Speaker 4: and up until a couple of years ago, I had
Speaker 4: never been to a radio row. I'd always been denied
Speaker 4: and they finally threw me a bone when the game
Speaker 4: was in LA and then last year in Phoenix, and
Speaker 4: so now I'm here this year. But you have been
Speaker 4: in radio long time too, and this is your first
Speaker 4: Super Bowl week and you're doing the whole week.
Speaker 6: You have the full Monty. Yeah, from zero to one hundred,
Speaker 6: just like that. Yeah, after twenty years, been here twenty years,
Speaker 6: twenty years, my first time. I'm well most of the time.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm back at the main studio and I'm
Speaker 6: the intake bringing everything in.
Speaker 1: As the z Dog used to say, you're holding down
Speaker 1: the fort.
Speaker 4: That's right, I used to tell any I don't want
Speaker 4: to hold down the fourth hold the Fort's good.
Speaker 1: I don't need to hold down the fort.
Speaker 6: It's not going anywhere exactly. It's not even very windy.
Speaker 4: So you was was this they three they popped up,
Speaker 4: say hey, we wanted it be this year.
Speaker 1: How did how did they hows this happen?
Speaker 6: So the truth of the matter is our our enterprise.
Speaker 6: Our production has grown so much over the years with
Speaker 6: all the new platforms, and everybody's got a podcast now. Look,
Speaker 6: I'm on one right now, the fifth hour recording. That's right,
Speaker 6: I've on tape right. Ten years ago we were not,
Speaker 6: there was none of this going on. There were no
Speaker 6: podcast recordings, and now we're doing tons of them while
Speaker 6: we're here. Plus we're doing four live shows on a
Speaker 6: daily basis. And the logistics of making all that happen, Boy,
Speaker 6: that's just a lot.
Speaker 4: So yeah, and so like to describe it. You've probably
Speaker 4: seen photos on on social media and all that. But
Speaker 4: there's this massive set which I think is worth more
Speaker 4: than me. The net worth of this set is.
Speaker 1: I would agree, more than I'm worth, and you, by
Speaker 1: the way, certainly.
Speaker 6: Put us both together and it's still worth more than both. Yes.
Speaker 4: So there's this main set which is like all the
Speaker 4: bells and whistles, get the Fox Sports Radio logo and
Speaker 4: all that. It's a really beautiful I would say it's
Speaker 4: to me, it's the most impressive thing in this whole
Speaker 4: radio row.
Speaker 6: Well, it really catches your eye when you walk in
Speaker 6: the door. First thing you see Pops, Yeah, Pops. So
Speaker 6: then behind it's the we're in the podcast wing. Yes,
Speaker 6: And there's like two different portals for podcasting, right, there's
Speaker 6: that now that side and then where we are, which
Speaker 6: I think is what is that side for? Is that
Speaker 6: for podcasting too? Don't yet or pre recorded in it. Basically,
Speaker 6: you know, we've got our guest booker, Lee Mayok, who
Speaker 6: does a tremendous job, and you know she's out here
Speaker 6: trying to hunt down people that are interesting, and you.
Speaker 4: Know that was the thing, Like, I wanted to talk
Speaker 4: to you because I know you and you're interesting. Some
Speaker 4: With all due respect, I don't mind putt athletes on Mike,
Speaker 4: but let's be honest, some of these guys, uh very dull.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to do a dull podcast.
Speaker 4: I think what you do is interesting in the fact
Speaker 4: that I've known you for a long time and all
Speaker 4: that stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Lee runs around and.
Speaker 6: She grabs him and drags him over here, and maybe
Speaker 6: most of the time against their will.
Speaker 4: By the way, not to make you feel important, but
Speaker 4: we we almost had Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: Oh but then he I guess he's only doing TV
Speaker 1: stuff or something like that.
Speaker 4: Oh, podcast the cheetah. The cheetah ran past us, but
Speaker 4: we can close to him. So, who's the coolest person
Speaker 4: that you've met? I've seen a lot of photos, You've
Speaker 4: you've met some some big names here.
Speaker 1: He've been around some big names. Like what's the what
Speaker 1: are some of the ones that stand out to you?
Speaker 6: Well, truth, I'll tell you the truth. I got a
Speaker 6: picture with Luke Keikley of course, Carolina Panthers fan. I
Speaker 6: almost you know, when I found out he was going
Speaker 6: to appear on our show, I almost texted my wife
Speaker 6: and told her to FedEx me.
Speaker 1: Get that sor.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, it seemed like it was gonna be a
Speaker 6: little much.
Speaker 1: He's a cool guy, yeah, really nice.
Speaker 6: Yeah. We talked for a little bit after the show,
Speaker 6: and he was great, man.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 6: He talked about Jerry Richardson a lot, and he said,
Speaker 6: you know, I really love Jerry Richardson, the old owner there. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and gave us, you know, gave me some sage words
Speaker 6: of advice, that kind of thing. Did he tell you
Speaker 6: who to invest? Speaking of Panthers, there's a cam newical
Speaker 6: about randomly walking bike.
Speaker 1: Yeah he's not going to us, No, no, god, no, no,
Speaker 1: he does not know who we are. Well, he probably does.
Speaker 1: I used to rip him back at the day, so
Speaker 1: he might. He might know that, but.
Speaker 6: It certainly doesn't know who I am, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: So Luke Heigley was the top. That was the top.
Speaker 6: Yeah for me, that was the top guy for me.
Speaker 6: I I after twenty years, it's hard to be impressed by,
Speaker 6: you know, one guy over another guy. Yeah, overall, it's impressive.
Speaker 4: I actually had a really cool moment. I'm going to
Speaker 4: use this on the radio show. So if you're listening
Speaker 4: here to the Fifth Hour podcast today, this is the
Speaker 4: day before the Super Bowl. I will use this, maybe
Speaker 4: not Sunday night, but I'll use it at some point here.
Speaker 4: So I was, I was hanging out with their old buddy,
Speaker 4: Tony Bruno. Yeah, Tony. Tony's got started. Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 4: was a They started the network around Tony Bruno.
Speaker 6: Tony was the king of LA sports radio in the nineties.
Speaker 1: King of Tony.
Speaker 4: We were talking about all the people that have worked
Speaker 4: with Tony. He's like the godfather of sports radio. There's
Speaker 4: guy's all over the.
Speaker 1: Country that either learned from Tony. I learned.
Speaker 4: I was a fan of Tony's when he started out
Speaker 4: back in the day and I used to listen to
Speaker 4: him and I was.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, I want to be like Tony Bruno man.
Speaker 4: So I'm hanging out with Tony and this like major
Speaker 4: ego boost. I might be able to just float back
Speaker 4: to LA. So he's uh, I'm getting bumped because Kevin Harlan,
Speaker 4: you know, Kevin Harlan played guy. So Kevin and Tony's like, hey, Kevin,
Speaker 4: you know Ben Mouth, and He's like, but I listened
Speaker 4: to your show. I was like, holy crap. Nice, Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's a listener. I was like, nuts, God's fantastic. I
Speaker 4: don't think he was you know, some of these guys
Speaker 4: are BS, and I don't think he was BS. And
Speaker 4: it seemed like legit, you know, it seemed I didn't
Speaker 4: think it was fake. I didn't think it was funny.
Speaker 4: He knew when I was on, he knew what station
Speaker 4: I was on, and so like, yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: That was awesome.
Speaker 4: I love Kevin Harley and I'm happy because I've kissed
Speaker 4: his ass a lot.
Speaker 1: And I didn't know he listened.
Speaker 4: I had no I know, I think he's wonder like
Speaker 4: the over the top on TNT, the NBA games in
Speaker 4: the NFL CBS.
Speaker 1: He's just awesome and I think he's and.
Speaker 4: Even though he just the radio Westwood won and him
Speaker 4: and Kurt Warner, you know, when there's a guy running
Speaker 4: on the field and all that stuff and screaming and
Speaker 4: shouting and that whole thing. Hey, you jesus, what's the
Speaker 4: party situation here this week?
Speaker 1: Mike?
Speaker 4: Have you been invited? Have you been able to sneak
Speaker 4: in in any parties here? You're hanging out with all
Speaker 4: the big shots.
Speaker 6: They had the NFL media party on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: How was that it was?
Speaker 6: It was nice? They went all out, you know, I
Speaker 6: mean the important part, as you know, being in radio
Speaker 6: as long as you have been, these parties are food
Speaker 6: free boots.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's really in all you can eat situation.
Speaker 6: So that's the whole reason I was there, absolutely one.
Speaker 6: Although they did have they didn't have a guy in
Speaker 6: really tight shorts on a stripper pole at one point.
Speaker 6: Well yeah, twenty four. No, it's progressive, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: It very It's not my taste, you know, but hey,
Speaker 6: you know, to each their own.
Speaker 1: Whatever floats your boat, right, Just yeah, that's pretty wild man.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a good time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like the greatest you invited these parties.
Speaker 4: And the greatest thing I ever food wise ever went
Speaker 4: to was actually the Stanley Cup Final of all things,
Speaker 4: really when the remember the Kings were in a couple
Speaker 4: of times and won Stanley Cups.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, twenty twelve insane. It was like five star.
Speaker 4: They had a Mexican food booth, they had a Chinese
Speaker 4: food or you know, Asian food, they had American food
Speaker 4: and it was like amazing.
Speaker 1: Everything was great and it was all you could eat.
Speaker 1: They had open bar.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that reminds me. The best one for me that
Speaker 6: I've been to was was opening of the ESPN Zone
Speaker 6: at Downtown Disney background back of the Old Show. I
Speaker 6: got invited to that and it was very similar. They
Speaker 6: had just massive amounts of food. The best thing though,
Speaker 6: was they had a hostess like display where it was
Speaker 6: just ding dongs and ho hos and twinkies and all
Speaker 6: that sort of stuff. Oh yeah, my blood sugar went
Speaker 6: through the roof that day. That's for damn sure.
Speaker 4: Well, as you know you knew me when I was
Speaker 4: much bigger, I've lost a fair amount of weight and
Speaker 4: so I do this inter minute fasting thing, right, but
Speaker 4: I do believe in rare and appropriate and media freeloading
Speaker 4: events are rare and appropriate prop for it. All diets
Speaker 4: are out the window for the day I can fall
Speaker 4: off the wagon. I can, I can get back right,
Speaker 4: not consistently off exactly, yeah, exactly. And this last year
Speaker 4: I've done the TV show, so I'm.
Speaker 1: Extra paranoid, right, extra paranoid about the whole You know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to look fat.
Speaker 4: I already look fat. I tell Looney all the time,
Speaker 4: and he has the same.
Speaker 6: That it's not fair. You can't compare yourself to.
Speaker 4: Well Looney's you know, goes to Mexico for steroids or
Speaker 4: but I tell them that, But kid, because I care,
Speaker 4: as Chris Myers would say all that, Hey, don't judge me, byer.
Speaker 4: How dare you damn bayer over there judging This guy
Speaker 4: played for the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 6: No, there's no man, No that's not that's not you did.
Speaker 1: He was the left tackle for the Carolina Patters in
Speaker 1: the year two thousand and three. For the Carolina fans,
Speaker 1: I don't think so you could say that, though you
Speaker 1: could probably claim.
Speaker 6: Nobody will have any idea whether it's.
Speaker 4: Exactly I mean you'd be like the ultimate heart. Oh,
Speaker 4: you would have to be the ultimate heart to know
Speaker 4: who these people are, right right, that's the good thing
Speaker 4: about offensivelignment. And you only know who they are when
Speaker 4: they're drafted, if they're in the first round, because people
Speaker 4: get all excited left tackle for the next ten years
Speaker 4: and this is gonna be the greatest thing we're b
Speaker 4: and then if they suck, because then you rip them,
Speaker 4: you call radio shows.
Speaker 6: He is post on the sea when they throw the flag,
Speaker 6: you know who the offensive line y?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, if you're if you're a left
Speaker 4: tackle is leading, like like the Chiefs this weekend, tomorrow
Speaker 4: and the Super Bowl, they have the most penalized offensive
Speaker 4: lineman this year. Like it just the ones that kill
Speaker 4: you that they jump off sides, the false start ones,
Speaker 4: like what are you doing?
Speaker 6: You can't even wait for the snap, Like, seriously, it's
Speaker 6: not it's not rocket surgery.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, come on, it's not that. Its job
Speaker 4: is not that hard. It is not that difficult.
Speaker 6: And then on the other side, you got Trent Williams,
Speaker 6: who may be rock you know, he's maybe the greatest
Speaker 6: left tackle in the game right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right now, yeah, my favorite tackle.
Speaker 4: Jackie Slater my age, and I've i've uh, I've.
Speaker 1: Told the story.
Speaker 4: We had Jackie on the podcast actually a couple of
Speaker 4: years ago. But with the Rams when I was a kid,
Speaker 4: I've told this story a few times. I haven't told
Speaker 4: a while. So I was a kid my mom, you know,
Speaker 4: growing up in Olich Canyon of the Rams trained in
Speaker 4: Irvine and cal State Fullerton, and so my mom would
Speaker 4: occasionally drop me off at Rams training camp nice and
Speaker 4: since I was a little fat kid, I thought I
Speaker 4: was gonna play in the off offensive line. Of course
Speaker 4: Jackie was playing for the Rams, and so I would
Speaker 4: go over to the offensive lineman. And this is so
Speaker 4: long ago. It's like the Stone age. You go to
Speaker 4: training camp now, it's like security. There's fences everywhere, you
Speaker 4: can't get around. There was like one guy in a
Speaker 4: folding chair, and like I was, we were all like
Speaker 4: standing right near the lineman when they would come over
Speaker 4: to get water and they would curse and fart and
Speaker 4: it was and I I.
Speaker 1: Told you, Jackie, oh yeah, I remember those days.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: It was very as a child, that was very impressionable.
Speaker 4: I was like great memories, like you could never have
Speaker 4: that expouse.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that doesn't happen.
Speaker 4: Now, everything's if you've been to the NFL Experience thing,
Speaker 4: which is around Have you gone through that whole rigamor
Speaker 4: that's a giant.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I gotta tell you didn't bother. No, I mean,
Speaker 6: it's just there's too much. It's frankly, it is too
Speaker 6: far away. I don't feel like walking on that far.
Speaker 1: Oh I don't even know. I don't even know. It's
Speaker 1: a massive complex.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's huge. And but you know, I've seen the
Speaker 6: pictures in the video and it looks exciting for you know, fans.
Speaker 6: But again, you know, in a round roll were veterans, right,
Speaker 6: it's hard to get excited about stuff like that anymore.
Speaker 1: Have you picked up any souvenirs? Are gonna take anything
Speaker 1: at all?
Speaker 6: I get a shirt, I got something for the wife,
Speaker 6: something for the daughter, you know, our hats yay?
Speaker 4: All right, Well, a little behind the scenes, thank you.
Speaker 4: You're hitting back right soon, you're hitting back. I'm getting
Speaker 4: on a plane, Charler.
Speaker 6: Actually, after we're done with this, I'm gonna go grab
Speaker 6: my bags, getting the taxi in the head to the airport.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 4: The great Mike Linguard, he works behind the scenes here
Speaker 4: a Fox Sports. He's been here all week, all week long,
Speaker 4: making sure everyone sounds good on the air. Have a
Speaker 4: wonderful rest of your Saturday. Don't forget. We will have
Speaker 4: the mail bag, me and Danny g on Sundays, Sunday Sunday.
Speaker 4: In't that right, Danergy, we have the mail bag?
Speaker 1: Right? Hold on, I said, we tore your mic on, Danny.
Speaker 4: I know you didn't want to talk to ling Guard,
Speaker 4: your big time ling guard here out there, you schmuck.
Speaker 1: This is Mike Linguard, Big Mike.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Mike who runs the stage here.
Speaker 1: I know he runs the whole place, right, I know.
Speaker 4: I said, listen, we were gonna get some NFL, but
Speaker 4: I don't wanted to talk to an NFL P Yeah.
Speaker 1: He is a guy I've known. We're like family.
Speaker 6: Me and him, clearly much more interesting than some random
Speaker 6: NFL guy.
Speaker 4: I told him he could pass for a Carolina Panther
Speaker 4: lineman from like two thousand and three.
Speaker 1: No one would know. He could probably do interviews around
Speaker 1: here and say that he played for the Panthers, just
Speaker 1: create a backstory.
Speaker 5: Did you hear how Kevin Harlan went crazy when he.
Speaker 1: Found out idea?
Speaker 6: Yeah, tell me about it. It was amazing. Mind.
Speaker 5: Oh man, that was a big the famous Ben mole.
Speaker 5: You thought I was going to say the famous Harlan No,
Speaker 5: the famous Ben Mallin.
Speaker 1: That was pretty cool, man. I gotta tell you that's
Speaker 1: I'm a bit of a broadcasting nerd. You guys know that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm more I'm more excited about that than like
Speaker 4: some of the players that might be listening, Like, to me,
Speaker 4: that's like that. He's like at the very near the
Speaker 4: top of play by play guys in the NFL.
Speaker 5: Well, Ben, I can't wait for our mail bag episode tomorrow.
Speaker 5: But I had to come on at the end right
Speaker 5: now because you can't end your podcast without me saying
Speaker 5: later skater my fla