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- 0:00Speaker 1: Cut booms.
- 0:02Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
- 0:05Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
- 0:09Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
- 0:12Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
- 0:15Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of
- 0:19Speaker 2: hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
- 0:23Speaker 2: with Ben Mahller starts right now.
- 0:28Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
- 0:31Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller and Danny g
- 0:34Speaker 3: Radio A Happy Saturday to you.
- 0:36Speaker 1: It's the twenty second day of March.
- 0:38Speaker 3: We're hanging out here early on a Saturday morning, and
- 0:44Speaker 3: normally we start out with some dope holiday and kind
- 0:46Speaker 3: of start yapping about that, but I think we should
- 0:49Speaker 3: start with the loss of a legend an icon, Danny.
- 0:55Speaker 3: We learned last night that George Foreman has gone by
- 1:00Speaker 3: behind the Pearly Gates, one of the great boxing stories
- 1:03Speaker 3: from back when we were younger, and a lot of
- 1:07Speaker 3: people it reminds me of she was like seventy six,
- 1:10Speaker 3: but it reminds me of the John Madden thing, where
- 1:13Speaker 3: there's people that thought John Madden was just a video game.
- 1:16Speaker 1: There's people that think George Foreman.
- 1:17Speaker 3: Was just like a grill that you get at Target,
- 1:20Speaker 3: Balmart or something like that. But he was a big
- 1:22Speaker 3: time boxer for many, many years back in the day.
- 1:24Speaker 4: Oh.
- 1:25Speaker 5: Not only was he a legendary boxer, but you're right,
- 1:28Speaker 5: his business acumen was on point. He got a grill,
- 1:32Speaker 5: and as the story goes, hul Cogan, what did he get,
- 1:35Speaker 5: like a blender or something like that that sucked.
- 1:38Speaker 3: Yeah, the famous story Hulk Hogan. They supposedly contacted hul Cogan. First,
- 1:42Speaker 3: there's a couple of different versions of the story. One
- 1:45Speaker 3: of them was they called hull Cogan, he didn't answer
- 1:48Speaker 3: his phone because he was picking up his kids or
- 1:51Speaker 3: something like that. And then there's another version where they said,
- 1:55Speaker 3: all right, you can either do the grill or you
- 1:57Speaker 3: can do like a meatball maker, and he he chose
- 2:01Speaker 3: the meatball maker, the whole Comania meatball maker which never which.
- 2:05Speaker 1: Never made it.
- 2:05Speaker 3: And then they called George Foreman up, and Foreman's like, yeah,
- 2:08Speaker 3: but Foreman had done a lot of commercials, like he
- 2:10Speaker 3: was a as you mentioned, he was a big time
- 2:13Speaker 3: sales guy.
- 2:13Speaker 1: He was in a lot of different crap back.
- 2:15Speaker 4: Yeah, he was a great hitch Man.
- 2:18Speaker 3: Yeah, he did a lot of like McDonald's, and he
- 2:21Speaker 3: used to point at the camera. Yeah, he had that
- 2:24Speaker 3: infectious smile too. And did he name all his kids
- 2:27Speaker 3: George and what.
- 2:28Speaker 4: He sure did? Yeah, George one through fourteen.
- 2:31Speaker 1: Yeah he had. He had a lot of kids.
- 2:33Speaker 4: I'm not sure how many, but yeah, they were all numbered.
- 2:36Speaker 1: There were a lot.
- 2:37Speaker 3: No it was I don't think it was fourteen. But
- 2:39Speaker 3: he definitely enjoyed himself. And then he ended up making
- 2:43Speaker 3: because of that George Foreman grill. He ended up making
- 2:46Speaker 3: hundreds of millions of dollars. I think I remember the
- 2:49Speaker 3: story in the late nineties he wrote over the use
- 2:53Speaker 3: of his name, and at the time, I think it
- 2:57Speaker 3: was like one hundred and thirty something million dollars that
- 3:01Speaker 3: George Foreman got.
- 3:03Speaker 1: In fact, you do a little type here this sake.
- 3:06Speaker 1: No no no, no, no, no, no, no no no.
- 3:09Speaker 5: I actually somewhere in the garage, I have a deluxe
- 3:12Speaker 5: George Foreman grill.
- 3:14Speaker 1: Oh not just the basic bitch.
- 3:16Speaker 3: You've you've gone above and beyond, all right, so it
- 3:18Speaker 3: says here, Yeah, Foreman got one hundred and thirty seven
- 3:24Speaker 3: million dollars in nineteen ninety nine, he got. So let's
- 3:32Speaker 3: do some malar math on that. Let's see, so I'll
- 3:35Speaker 3: basically hold on sic. So if inflation since nineteen ninety nine, uh,
- 3:40Speaker 3: it's gone up ninety one percent essentially, so uh it
- 3:45Speaker 3: was one hundred and thirty seven it's like or two
- 3:49Speaker 3: point six million in today's dollars.
- 3:52Speaker 1: He got.
- 3:53Speaker 3: Now, is that is that Foreman grill you have still
- 3:55Speaker 3: in the box, Danny? Or is that is that game used?
- 3:58Speaker 5: It's still in the box, but it's light used. When
- 4:01Speaker 5: I lived alone, I made a lot of turkey burgers
- 4:03Speaker 5: with it.
- 4:04Speaker 1: Okay, that was your go to back in the day.
- 4:07Speaker 5: I burned out the original and I remember finding that
- 4:10Speaker 5: bigger George Foreman grill the top like pivots pivot Hey,
- 4:16Speaker 5: those were great because remember they drained the grease out
- 4:18Speaker 5: into the grease catcher.
- 4:20Speaker 1: Yeah. And the guy that actually invented him. I was
- 4:22Speaker 1: reading a story about it.
- 4:25Speaker 3: Last night when we found out that George Foreman had died.
- 4:28Speaker 3: And the guy that actually came up with it was
- 4:31Speaker 3: this guy named Michael Baum.
- 4:32Speaker 1: I believe was his name A b O.
- 4:34Speaker 3: E Hm, I'm not trying to pronounce that, but he
- 4:37Speaker 3: was the creator of it and he was just like
- 4:38Speaker 3: a gadget guy. But he didn't get any kind of
- 4:41Speaker 3: money out of it compared to what George Foreman got
- 4:44Speaker 3: out of it. But he this guy would just futs
- 4:46Speaker 3: around with like lawnmowers and snowmobiles and all that stuff,
- 4:50Speaker 3: and he's the guy that actually created the product, and
- 4:52Speaker 3: then George.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Foreman ended up taking it to the new level.
- 4:57Speaker 3: The other thing that I learned about that Danny, which
- 4:59Speaker 3: is great, is this is a testimonial now that we've
- 5:03Speaker 3: lost George Foreman. Though it's a testimonial to the power
- 5:06Speaker 3: of the infomercial because according to what I was reading,
- 5:11Speaker 3: the Foreman Grill when it came out was not really selling.
- 5:14Speaker 3: It wasn't all that popular when they first debuted back
- 5:18Speaker 3: in the day. And what had happened was Foreman popped
- 5:23Speaker 3: up on QVC.
- 5:26Speaker 1: I think that's still around. It was a.
- 5:28Speaker 5: Shopping QVC still there. You could make like five payments
- 5:32Speaker 5: for an item.
- 5:33Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, So early on people were on buying the
- 5:37Speaker 3: Foreman Grill. And then Foreman made his first appearance on
- 5:41Speaker 3: television on the Shopping that We're QBC and just did
- 5:46Speaker 3: the pitch and all that, and he's.
- 5:48Speaker 5: So perfect for that with his smile, and all the
- 5:51Speaker 5: old ladies watching around the country.
- 5:54Speaker 3: They say the aha moment was they actually used the
- 5:56Speaker 3: grill on the TV show and the hosts were mosing
- 6:00Speaker 3: with each other and then Foreman just grabbed. At one
- 6:03Speaker 3: point he picked up the burger and ate it. I
- 6:05Speaker 3: rotate nuts right out. Yeah, as it was, We've been
- 6:09Speaker 3: made and that apparently lit up the phone lines and
- 6:13Speaker 3: people could not get enough of them ever since then.
- 6:15Speaker 5: So there's actually an indoor outdoor electric grill by Foreman.
- 6:20Speaker 5: Oh yeah, there's there's all nonstick grill griddle and it's
- 6:23Speaker 5: on a stand.
- 6:25Speaker 1: Oh is that right? Okay, that's like the next generation.
- 6:27Speaker 5: That's a next yeah exactly. Yeah, that's cool though. I
- 6:30Speaker 5: want one of those from my patio.
- 6:31Speaker 4: Now.
- 6:31Speaker 3: You remember the original name was the Lean Mean Fat
- 6:34Speaker 3: Reducing Grilling Machine.
- 6:36Speaker 5: Uh yeah, it was came in that white box I remember.
- 6:40Speaker 3: Yeah, the George Foreman Lean Mean, Lean Mean Fat Reduced
- 6:43Speaker 3: seeing Grilling Machine, and they just shortened it to the
- 6:47Speaker 3: George Foreman Grill. It's estimated not here, it's dead. He
- 6:50Speaker 3: made over five hundred million dollars off that grill. Oh
- 6:54Speaker 3: my gosh, five hundred million and hal Cogan maybe sold
- 6:57Speaker 3: like seven meatball makers, but does you know, maybe a
- 7:00Speaker 3: blender or something.
- 7:01Speaker 1: But five hundred million off that grill? God, how about that? Wow?
- 7:05Speaker 4: Wow? That crazy? Yeah.
- 7:07Speaker 3: And you know, George, I don't know what did him
- 7:10Speaker 3: in George at age seventy six. But how about the
- 7:13Speaker 3: fact Don King is still kicking at ninety three and
- 7:17Speaker 3: we lost George here at seventy six. But Don King
- 7:21Speaker 3: still out there doing his thing and these as far
- 7:25Speaker 3: as I know, he's in decent. Hell, he lived in
- 7:27Speaker 3: Florida and all that. But yeah, George Foreman, rest in peace.
- 7:32Speaker 3: One of the great characters back when boxing matted right.
- 7:35Speaker 1: Just was a big deal.
- 7:36Speaker 3: And he was in some massive five We're mostly talking
- 7:40Speaker 3: about the Grill because you know, it's the grill, but
- 7:42Speaker 3: there were some amazing moments there. And he fought Joe
- 7:48Speaker 3: Frazier in the Fight of the Century in nineteen seventy one,
- 7:52Speaker 3: and it was also he was the guy who fought
- 7:57Speaker 3: Muhammad Ali.
- 7:58Speaker 1: And you know, a.
- 7:59Speaker 3: Bunch of these guys back in the day, so two
- 8:01Speaker 3: of the most iconic boxing events of all time. Joe
- 8:04Speaker 3: Frazier in the Fight of the Century and then Muhammad
- 8:07Speaker 3: Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle. Has there been
- 8:10Speaker 3: a better name for a fight than the Rumble in
- 8:12Speaker 3: the Jungle? That has got to be top top five,
- 8:17Speaker 3: top three, top two all time boxing.
- 8:19Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 8:19Speaker 5: Yeah, And this was years before Tom Brady and some
- 8:23Speaker 5: older players, other older players who were still starring on
- 8:28Speaker 5: the field. I remember my grandmother pointing at him out
- 8:31Speaker 5: all the time, saying, see, just because you're old, doesn't
- 8:34Speaker 5: mean your life's over. He was kind of known as
- 8:37Speaker 5: the old guy that could still do it.
- 8:39Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember when he came back.
- 8:41Speaker 3: I was just starting my bloviating career and people were like, oh,
- 8:45Speaker 3: he mean, he's been out of boxing for too long
- 8:47Speaker 3: form and he's not gonna be able to come back.
- 8:48Speaker 3: He sat out like ten years and then came back
- 8:51Speaker 3: and became the heavyweight championship. A toss up question. Toss
- 8:56Speaker 3: up question, Danny g better fight name the Rumble in
- 8:59Speaker 3: the or the Thrilla in Manila, But that those gotta
- 9:03Speaker 3: be the top two, right, have to be the top.
- 9:05Speaker 5: Ah Thrilla in Manila. Just I could see the poster
- 9:09Speaker 5: in my mind.
- 9:10Speaker 1: I know.
- 9:11Speaker 3: But Rumble in the Jungle, you know, it's like the
- 9:13Speaker 3: Jim Rome Show from nineteen ninety.
- 9:15Speaker 4: That one sounds racist.
- 9:16Speaker 1: Racist.
- 9:18Speaker 5: Back then, you could get away with that.
- 9:19Speaker 3: Back when was that nineteen seventy four or whatever that
- 9:22Speaker 3: fight was back in the day.
- 9:24Speaker 5: Man rip Man definitely a huge, huge legend there.
- 9:29Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 9:29Speaker 3: I did chat with mister Foreman a few times my
- 9:32Speaker 3: back in my younger days when I'd go to Vegas
- 9:34Speaker 3: for fights or whatever, back when boxing was still big,
- 9:37Speaker 3: and they'd fly everyone in and it was like a
- 9:40Speaker 3: big spectacle and they'd bring it back all the boxing
- 9:43Speaker 3: legend would be a wandering around and all that, and
- 9:46Speaker 3: so I do. I did run into Forman a few
- 9:48Speaker 3: times back in the day, and very nice man. Not
- 9:51Speaker 3: quite the same impact on me as Don King, though,
- 9:53Speaker 3: And I've told the Don King story many times. The
- 9:56Speaker 3: boxing promoter, well I remember that story. Yeah, he just
- 10:00Speaker 3: butted my biscuits.
- 10:01Speaker 4: Man.
- 10:01Speaker 3: I thought I was the greatest thing in the world
- 10:03Speaker 3: and he just couldn't say enough things about me. And
- 10:06Speaker 3: then he walked over to the next booth and said
- 10:07Speaker 3: the same exact thing about the other gas. So it's like, okay,
- 10:13Speaker 3: on this fifth hour podcast we have well, we just
- 10:16Speaker 3: did the whole tribute to the grill Master, George Former.
- 10:19Speaker 3: We got the Merry Go Round, the Catered Affair, pulls
- 10:22Speaker 3: cats and kittens, and we'll see what else we have
- 10:24Speaker 3: time for, but we'll start with the Merry Go Round.
- 10:27Speaker 3: And did not have the live radio show overnight into
- 10:31Speaker 3: Saturday morning here because it's a day of rest other
- 10:33Speaker 3: than this podcast, So we missed out. I missed out
- 10:36Speaker 3: on a great, great Merry Go Round, just a wonderful
- 10:41Speaker 3: merry go round of quarterbacks, just wonderful and quarter and
- 10:46Speaker 3: then nothing really happened other than Jameis Winston going to
- 10:50Speaker 3: the Giants. And I'm a big Jameis Winston fan. Do
- 10:54Speaker 3: I think Jameis Winston's good?
- 10:55Speaker 6: No?
- 10:55Speaker 1: Do I like Jameis Winston.
- 10:57Speaker 3: Yeah, he's thirty one, he's He's what I've said you
- 11:01Speaker 3: want to have. If you're a team like the Giants,
- 11:03Speaker 3: you want at least fun bad. You don't want bad bad,
- 11:08Speaker 3: you want fun bad. He's f b He's fun bad.
- 11:10Speaker 3: Jameis won.
- 11:12Speaker 5: He doesn't want a guy that's going to tease you
- 11:13Speaker 5: all the way to the start of the fourth quarter
- 11:16Speaker 5: before he throws two back breaking interceptions.
- 11:19Speaker 3: Yeah, he'll throw his two pick sixes at some moment
- 11:22Speaker 3: and break your heart, but they'll be games. Jameis Wins
- 11:25Speaker 3: is a one man band. He'll have some games where
- 11:26Speaker 3: he throws five touchdown passes. He'll have some games where
- 11:29Speaker 3: he throws five interceptions.
- 11:30Speaker 1: Now, it doesn't.
- 11:31Speaker 3: Guarantee just because he's signed with the Giants obviously does
- 11:33Speaker 3: not guarantee that they're not gonna go out. And that's
- 11:35Speaker 3: some other other quarterback. And the big story from yesterday
- 11:40Speaker 3: was Aaron Rogers actually visiting western Pennsylvania, breaking the silence.
- 11:47Speaker 3: Rogers leaving the beaches of Malibu to go hang out
- 11:51Speaker 3: at the confluence there in Pittsburgh.
- 11:54Speaker 5: Yeah, supposedly he had thumbed his nose at Pittsburgh, but
- 11:57Speaker 5: then the Vikings told him not interesting, and suddenly he's
- 12:01Speaker 5: on a plane over to Pittsburgh.
- 12:03Speaker 3: Yeah, so he met with some of the big shots
- 12:05Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh. The I read it was a six hour situation.
- 12:09Speaker 3: What do they talk about for six hours? They have
- 12:11Speaker 3: lunch for that lunch is about thirty five mine?
- 12:15Speaker 5: Right, when you did like a radio interview in your
- 12:18Speaker 5: early years, Yeah.
- 12:19Speaker 4: Well could that go one hour? Two hours at the most?
- 12:23Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 12:23Speaker 3: Normally what would happen is you'd meet with the program director,
- 12:25Speaker 3: they'd walk you around the station, to show you the station,
- 12:29Speaker 3: and then you'd meet with them for whatever and that
- 12:32Speaker 3: was it. Or maybe you'd go to lunch with them
- 12:34Speaker 3: and then you wouldn't even see the station and that's that,
- 12:36Speaker 3: you know. Ben I had one program director. He brought
- 12:39Speaker 3: me to his house after the lunch because he had
- 12:41Speaker 3: to pick something up. And then he was like in
- 12:45Speaker 3: there forever and he came back out at his front
- 12:47Speaker 3: door and he said, come on in for a little bit.
- 12:49Speaker 3: His wife was in there, and maybe early twenties, he
- 12:52Speaker 3: was a young program director.
- 12:54Speaker 4: They were in there smoking weed.
- 12:56Speaker 1: Smoke weedy day, just chilling man, just having a good time.
- 13:00Speaker 4: And I was like, man, this, uh, this interview is
- 13:02Speaker 4: going to go.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Long app after he is done. But yeah, there was a.
- 13:09Speaker 4: That would have been Kooper Op's dream job.
- 13:13Speaker 3: God, he'd be like the assistant PD if he worked there.
- 13:16Speaker 1: But I remember the Uh.
- 13:18Speaker 3: There was one station I worked at my early days
- 13:22Speaker 3: before Fox Sports Radio, and in the afternoon, the program
- 13:27Speaker 3: director interviewed a guy who was on television in LA
- 13:33Speaker 3: for a job while the host was on the air
- 13:36Speaker 3: down the hall, like interviewed his replacement to take his
- 13:40Speaker 3: job while he was in the building.
- 13:42Speaker 4: That was very ouch.
- 13:46Speaker 3: He would have gotten away with it, but somebody spotted
- 13:48Speaker 3: the guy who he was interviewing and put you know,
- 13:51Speaker 3: two and two together and realized what are we doing here?
- 13:55Speaker 3: So yeah, Rogers, I mean that would have been a
- 13:57Speaker 3: great monologue.
- 13:58Speaker 1: I mean, we'll see. He hasn't signed yet, so we'll
- 13:59Speaker 1: see if he's signs.
- 14:00Speaker 3: You got to think he wants to play that it
- 14:03Speaker 3: makes a lot of sense. Played season number twenty one
- 14:07Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh and they say that.
- 14:09Speaker 1: Yeah deal.
- 14:10Speaker 5: I was going to say, just to back up to
- 14:13Speaker 5: the Giants. You're right, they're going to draft a young quarterback.
- 14:17Speaker 5: So whether or not that young quarterback is ready to
- 14:19Speaker 5: play or not, Jamis is a really good commodity to
- 14:22Speaker 5: have as your backup.
- 14:23Speaker 4: If that's how it's going to roll.
- 14:26Speaker 3: Yeah, I like Jamis will be great and the New
- 14:28Speaker 3: York media will embrace him and he'll be wonderful for
- 14:32Speaker 3: the tabloids.
- 14:33Speaker 4: And oh yeah, you saw him at the super Bowl
- 14:35Speaker 4: with that microphone.
- 14:36Speaker 1: And another win for Sequon Barkley.
- 14:38Speaker 3: Remember Barkley at the Super Bowl at that opening night,
- 14:42Speaker 3: which used to be Media Day before it was bastardized
- 14:44Speaker 3: by the NFL. They Barkley asked or James Winston asked
- 14:49Speaker 3: Barkley where he should go, and Barkley said, yeah, or
- 14:53Speaker 3: so he was a Southsayer even before winning the Super Bowl.
- 14:58Speaker 3: And I you mentioned the Viking's not interested in Aaron Rodgers.
- 15:01Speaker 3: Did you see they had discussions with Ryan Tannehill. I
- 15:06Speaker 3: thought he was tired. I didn't even realize.
- 15:08Speaker 5: Oh, I thought that that was an old post from
- 15:11Speaker 5: Jordan Schultz from three years ago.
- 15:13Speaker 3: Yeah, what is that, Ryan Tannehill? I mean, you go
- 15:16Speaker 3: down to the cemetery and dig his ass up. My god,
- 15:19Speaker 3: Ryan tanne are you kidding me? Ryan Tannehill is the guy.
- 15:23Speaker 1: What are you doing? I mean, it's very bizarre.
- 15:27Speaker 3: It's like, well, George, the Vikings are like, well, JJ
- 15:30Speaker 3: McCarthy's a guy.
- 15:31Speaker 5: But then yeah, well that's why they don't want an
- 15:34Speaker 5: enigma like Rogers sucking all the air out of that
- 15:38Speaker 5: stadium there in Minnesota. They'd rather have, like, you know,
- 15:42Speaker 5: somebody steady and maybe reliable. That's not Santa Hill, but
- 15:46Speaker 5: somebody just like a steady Joe Flacco type backup for
- 15:49Speaker 5: a young McCarthy.
- 15:50Speaker 1: Hey, well, Joe Flacco's available if you want.
- 15:52Speaker 3: And there was a rumor one of our listeners in
- 15:54Speaker 3: Minnesota emailed me a story from some Viking website fan
- 15:59Speaker 3: website I've never heard of that claimed, oh the Chargers justin.
- 16:07Speaker 5: Herbert Supply the deal was done according to two sources.
- 16:12Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know about that one. Methinks probably not.
- 16:15Speaker 3: Methinks unlikely.
- 16:17Speaker 1: The deal was if.
- 16:18Speaker 5: As somebody who like anonymously emailed into that Vikings show.
- 16:23Speaker 3: Oh well, those are always good clickbait. Hey, you know,
- 16:26Speaker 3: every once in a while, they're right, right, every once
- 16:28Speaker 3: in a while, the right. There was a guy the
- 16:30Speaker 3: other day this week who was on a flight to
- 16:33Speaker 3: Boston and said, Hey, Stefan Diggs is on my flight.
- 16:36Speaker 3: He's going to New England to meet with the Patriots.
- 16:39Speaker 3: And the Internet was like, oh, yeah, you're full of crap,
- 16:42Speaker 3: what a loser, you're trying to get cloud. And then
- 16:45Speaker 3: like two hours later it was yeah, Stefan Diggs is
- 16:48Speaker 3: going to meet with the Patriots.
- 16:49Speaker 1: You know. So I really do get that.
- 16:51Speaker 3: Stuff right every now and again, but I would be
- 16:55Speaker 3: be surprised. However, we know Jim Harbaugh, a Michigan man,
- 17:00Speaker 3: loved loved him some JJ McCarthy, and it's not outrageous
- 17:04Speaker 3: to think that the Harbor after spending a year coaching
- 17:08Speaker 3: Justin Herbert might think this guy is like more of
- 17:10Speaker 3: a surfer than a quarterback, and that maybe I should
- 17:13Speaker 3: go get my guy who I know and J J.
- 17:16Speaker 1: McCarthy.
- 17:16Speaker 3: It would be fun. Do I think it's going to happen. No,
- 17:18Speaker 3: but it's fun to think about. Those kinds of things
- 17:21Speaker 3: are kind of cool to toss about. But turning the
- 17:24Speaker 3: page on that, I didn't want to mention. You know,
- 17:25Speaker 3: this is the Saturday Pod Life of Malar, Life of
- 17:28Speaker 3: Danny g. So we had a small shindig last weekend,
- 17:33Speaker 3: small shindig family, family, no friends, just family and a
- 17:38Speaker 3: good little get together at Malor Mansion. Good to see
- 17:40Speaker 3: people hadn't seen in some times. Some people hadn't seen
- 17:42Speaker 3: in many many months. And uh and it was a
- 17:45Speaker 3: catered affair and what catering company did? We use craft
- 17:51Speaker 3: services the same as the movie studio, though we use
- 17:54Speaker 3: the Malar craft services. The menu cheese, steak, and the
- 17:59Speaker 3: I was a lie cook. I was a line cook
- 18:01Speaker 3: that it made the food for a lot of people,
- 18:04Speaker 3: and I had my I was enjoying it because I
- 18:06Speaker 3: didn't have to socialize because I was on the griddle
- 18:09Speaker 3: so I just worked the griddle and uh, and the
- 18:12Speaker 3: people did come out try to talk to me. I
- 18:14Speaker 3: think they wanted bigger portions of food. That's why they
- 18:16Speaker 3: came out to talk to me.
- 18:17Speaker 1: And what are you? What are you making? What's going on?
- 18:21Speaker 3: But that I felt a little bit like this guy
- 18:23Speaker 3: named blind Willy. Remember blind Willie called from Florida.
- 18:27Speaker 5: Oh, I do remember Brian blind Willy. He used to
- 18:29Speaker 5: call Klay Travis's show too.
- 18:31Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know what happened to blind Willy.
- 18:33Speaker 5: But I want to say, unfortunately, he's probably not with us.
- 18:36Speaker 1: You think blind Willy's checked out whom.
- 18:38Speaker 5: Yeah, he was older back when he used to call.
- 18:42Speaker 5: That was right before COVID, So yeah, I don't know
- 18:45Speaker 5: what happened.
- 18:45Speaker 1: But he I think he worked at like an Applebee's
- 18:47Speaker 1: or something like that.
- 18:48Speaker 3: It was some restaurant and he was We always thought
- 18:51Speaker 3: it was funny because he's a cook and he couldn't see,
- 18:54Speaker 3: you know, he was liked he was legally blind, and
- 18:56Speaker 3: he he would make food for people. But I felt
- 18:59Speaker 3: like blind Willy. It was a busy, busy night, mission accomplished.
- 19:04Speaker 3: Everyone seemed to eat, drink and be merry. So we
- 19:06Speaker 3: did that.
- 19:07Speaker 5: I picture you looking like that cook on You can't
- 19:09Speaker 5: say that on television.
- 19:11Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a little dice. The thing.
- 19:14Speaker 3: The thing about this Danny that I've noticed is that
- 19:16Speaker 3: my wife thinks it's like we're at a steakhouse and
- 19:20Speaker 3: everyone's gonna eat at the same time, and I'm like,
- 19:22Speaker 3: I gotta you know, I.
- 19:23Speaker 1: Gotta put everything together.
- 19:24Speaker 3: You know, I got a whole there's a whole routine,
- 19:27Speaker 3: and I try to get the food out as quick
- 19:30Speaker 3: as I can't.
- 19:30Speaker 1: But I'm not I'm one person, you know, So everyone's
- 19:33Speaker 1: gonna eat at the same time, you know that whole reule.
- 19:35Speaker 1: I'm like, well, no eat when the food comes out,
- 19:37Speaker 1: they can eat.
- 19:38Speaker 5: In reality, You're right, people eat at all different times.
- 19:40Speaker 5: So there needs to be a tip jar in front
- 19:42Speaker 5: of you.
- 19:43Speaker 3: Yeah, or hire another chef or something like that, and
- 19:47Speaker 3: you can work with magic there.
- 19:49Speaker 1: My goodness. So that was part of the weekend. Last weekend, just.
- 19:54Speaker 3: Kind of hanging out and had a had a fine
- 19:57Speaker 3: time chilling. And of course the last couple of days
- 20:00Speaker 3: is watching a lot of the college basketball and I'm trying.
- 20:04Speaker 3: I'm trying to focus, Danny. I am, I mean, these
- 20:06Speaker 3: are some tough watches. These are just a lot of
- 20:09Speaker 3: tough games. You know, a couple of g.
- 20:11Speaker 4: Oh yeah, forty point blowouts are no fun.
- 20:15Speaker 3: They do generally make for a better tournament down the line.
- 20:19Speaker 3: They make for a better tournament down the line, but
- 20:21Speaker 3: it's painful. It's a lot of mislayups, a lot of
- 20:26Speaker 3: missed wide open shots and.
- 20:29Speaker 5: Well, you know that mcnee's game a few days back, Yeah,
- 20:33Speaker 5: that wound up being a lot of fun because they
- 20:37Speaker 5: had to hold on and just watching the team celebrate
- 20:39Speaker 5: and the coach jumping up and down on the court.
- 20:42Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 20:42Speaker 3: I mean you see some of these games, like the
- 20:44Speaker 3: coaches come out and they're just like, oh man, we're terrible.
- 20:47Speaker 3: You know, I do I do enjoy And I said
- 20:50Speaker 3: this the other day when I was filling in on
- 20:52Speaker 3: the locally in LA. I enjoy Mick Cronin like I
- 20:57Speaker 3: I don't know that we appreciate the UCLA coach because
- 20:59Speaker 3: he's it's kind of a straight shooter as much as
- 21:02Speaker 3: you can be. Like and they early on they were
- 21:05Speaker 3: get UCLA on Thursday was getting smoked by a Utah
- 21:09Speaker 3: State or they were it was just no, they weren't
- 21:11Speaker 3: playing very well.
- 21:12Speaker 1: And Mick Cronin.
- 21:13Speaker 3: You know, somebody had kicked his kitten or something like that,
- 21:16Speaker 3: and then and they.
- 21:17Speaker 1: Had one of my thirty points.
- 21:18Speaker 3: Anyway, so I'm worried Cronin's gonna leave. I think I
- 21:22Speaker 3: think he's gonna go somewhere else, But who knows. Then
- 21:24Speaker 3: we'll see what happens this weekend and later today. Right,
- 21:28Speaker 3: we've got Rick Patino and John Calipari. That'll be a
- 21:31Speaker 3: game to circle right college basketball today And I watched that.
- 21:34Speaker 1: That'll be a that'll be a fun one.
- 21:36Speaker 3: And maybe you can go hang out with some cats
- 21:38Speaker 3: and some kittens and just kind of hang out and
- 21:40Speaker 3: watch the game.
- 21:40Speaker 1: What do you say?
- 21:42Speaker 5: Yeah, you remember that catchphrase? Hey are you cool? Cats
- 21:47Speaker 5: and kittens?
- 21:48Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah?
- 21:50Speaker 5: Five years ago? What was the anniversary on Thursday?
- 21:55Speaker 1: Uh?
- 21:56Speaker 4: What was the five year anniversary? Uh?
- 22:01Speaker 1: I have no idea.
- 22:02Speaker 5: That was Carol Baskin. We all got to look into
- 22:06Speaker 5: her feud with Joe Exotic, oh Man Figer King, Yes.
- 22:11Speaker 1: Hey are you cool? At Katthain Kittens?
- 22:13Speaker 4: And the week.
- 22:14Speaker 5: Prior on March eleventh, five year anniversary of Rudy Gobert
- 22:18Speaker 5: starting COVID, rubbing all the mics.
- 22:21Speaker 1: Oh yeah, patient zero, right, patient zero, and.
- 22:25Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and you remember Tom Hanks had it and
- 22:29Speaker 5: that's when everybody was like, oh my god, and the
- 22:32Speaker 5: world shut down. We thought it was going to be
- 22:34Speaker 5: two weeks, you know, for the curve and all that,
- 22:36Speaker 5: and so we got into the same discussion.
- 22:40Speaker 4: Can you believe it's been five years?
- 22:43Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty pretty wild man. We're just in a
- 22:45Speaker 3: hot tub time machine. We are zooming and Joe was
- 22:49Speaker 3: it Joe exotic?
- 22:50Speaker 1: Isn't he in jail still? Yeah?
- 22:53Speaker 5: Carol Baskin I think sold the property that she was on.
- 22:58Speaker 5: She was an interesting lady. I remember I booked her
- 23:01Speaker 5: on Clay Travis's I.
- 23:02Speaker 1: Remember you trying to track her down. I do remember.
- 23:05Speaker 5: Yeah, she was hard to track down. She wasn't as
- 23:07Speaker 5: hard to track down as I thought. What was really
- 23:10Speaker 5: hard was convincing her to go on the air because
- 23:13Speaker 5: a lot of people burned her in the media because
- 23:16Speaker 5: everybody assumed that she was a murderer.
- 23:18Speaker 4: Remember, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.
- 23:21Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of people thought and assumed she murdered
- 23:24Speaker 5: her ex husband because that's the way she was portrayed.
- 23:27Speaker 5: And so she didn't want to get blindsided by media
- 23:30Speaker 5: so I had to exchange email after email with this
- 23:34Speaker 5: lady for weeks, sent her pictures of my cat true story,
- 23:39Speaker 5: and got to talking with her about pets and everything.
- 23:42Speaker 5: She finally felt comfortable enough with me to go on
- 23:45Speaker 5: the air. It was awesome and of course the first
- 23:48Speaker 5: question Klay Travis asked her was, so, did you kill
- 23:52Speaker 5: your ex husband?
- 23:55Speaker 4: Did he did it?
- 23:56Speaker 5: He alluded to the media problems that she had, but
- 24:00Speaker 5: he didn't come out and say it, Thank goodness.
- 24:03Speaker 4: I thought she would have hung up. For sure.
- 24:05Speaker 1: Who was who was more impressive to talk to him
- 24:07Speaker 1: that time? Her?
- 24:08Speaker 4: Or Donald Trump? President Trump?
- 24:10Speaker 5: Definitely Trump on his cell phone. Yeah, that is on
- 24:14Speaker 5: his personal cell phone.
- 24:15Speaker 3: I still I'll run into people and in conversation, you know,
- 24:19Speaker 3: Trump's name will come up, and I'll be do you
- 24:21Speaker 3: know he he's the president and he calls on.
- 24:24Speaker 1: His own phone.
- 24:24Speaker 6: He calls on his own I still like, I remember
- 24:28Speaker 6: when we were kids, and it was like Ronald Reagan
- 24:32Speaker 6: would call the Washington Redskins to congratulate, remember the team
- 24:35Speaker 6: that won the Super Bowl?
- 24:36Speaker 5: Oh yeah, for sure, I remember. I remember him talking
- 24:40Speaker 5: to Al Davis.
- 24:40Speaker 1: Remember, yes, yes, but you remember how it would work.
- 24:43Speaker 3: It would be the White House called stand by for
- 24:46Speaker 3: the President of the United States, you know, some some
- 24:49Speaker 3: dues from the White ye.
- 24:50Speaker 4: It was like the official secretary of the White House.
- 24:52Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you got President Trump. All right, let's
- 24:55Speaker 3: go to Don online three from d C. Don you
- 24:59Speaker 3: just it was like texting.
- 25:01Speaker 5: Me and calling me off his cell phone. It was amazing.
- 25:04Speaker 5: I'm still mind blown by that. It's such a weird time, man,
- 25:08Speaker 5: when you think back to all that and us having
- 25:11Speaker 5: those FEMA passes, the producers and driving in every day
- 25:14Speaker 5: when nobody, absolutely nobody was on the road, to the
- 25:18Speaker 5: point where I got pulled over, not once, not twice,
- 25:21Speaker 5: three times during all that and had to show them
- 25:25Speaker 5: my THEMA car. Twice in Burbank. Once in Sherman Oaks,
- 25:28Speaker 5: I was pulled over because I was literally the only
- 25:31Speaker 5: car driving on the road at four am. Now, I
- 25:34Speaker 5: know that's early, but you know, with normal business, there's
- 25:38Speaker 5: still quite a few cars on the road at that
- 25:40Speaker 5: time in southern California.
- 25:43Speaker 1: Yeah, no, there are.
- 25:43Speaker 3: And I remember we started doing the shows from home
- 25:48Speaker 3: around that time, but I would go in early.
- 25:50Speaker 1: On the first couple of.
- 25:51Speaker 3: Weeks we were going in and everything was shut down
- 25:54Speaker 3: because it was that two weeks, you know, stop the
- 25:57Speaker 3: thing and you'll be back. And I remember driving was
- 26:01Speaker 3: it flatten the curve? Flatten the curve? Yeah, yeah, I
- 26:03Speaker 3: remember that was the thing. But I remember driving on
- 26:06Speaker 3: the highway on the you know I five near Dodger Stadium,
- 26:09Speaker 3: and I thought I was in the twilight zone. I'm
- 26:11Speaker 3: in the second largest city in America and You're the only.
- 26:15Speaker 1: Car on the road. It was unreal.
- 26:18Speaker 3: I was like crazy, and I'm like I'm going, I'm
- 26:20Speaker 3: doing like Circle eight C and all.
- 26:22Speaker 1: I'm driving around like a yeah crazy with dude.
- 26:24Speaker 4: Dude.
- 26:24Speaker 5: It's one of my most vivid Yeah, you're you're dead on.
- 26:28Speaker 5: It's one of my most vivid memories of all that.
- 26:31Speaker 5: And for our Throwback Thursday topic, Covino and Rich for
- 26:34Speaker 5: an hour talked about the biggest memories with sports in
- 26:38Speaker 5: our network, things that were going on in general in
- 26:40Speaker 5: life at that time and how weird everything was. And
- 26:43Speaker 5: there were a lot of callers calling in and saying
- 26:46Speaker 5: what they remembered the most about it, and one caller
- 26:49Speaker 5: in particular thanked our network because he said, and by
- 26:53Speaker 5: the way, he called you out by.
- 26:55Speaker 4: Name, Oh a good way.
- 26:56Speaker 5: Yeah, he said, that the hour and a half he
- 26:59Speaker 5: got to listen to Ben Mallor on his commute to work,
- 27:02Speaker 5: because he was still one of the essential workers. That
- 27:05Speaker 5: was the only thing at the time that made him
- 27:08Speaker 5: feel normal.
- 27:10Speaker 3: Well, there's nothing normal about my show, but I appreciate
- 27:13Speaker 3: I appreciate his kindness. Yeah, it was to think about
- 27:17Speaker 3: now in hindsight, because I remember when I first came
- 27:19Speaker 3: into sports radio in you know, I was a kid,
- 27:23Speaker 3: and every year, the one month people bitched about was
- 27:30Speaker 3: the month of late from like mid June to late July,
- 27:34Speaker 3: before NFL training camps kind of got going.
- 27:37Speaker 1: And the worst was the All Star break.
- 27:39Speaker 3: In Major League Baseball because there were no Yeah, and
- 27:42Speaker 3: this was before social media and all that. So to
- 27:45Speaker 3: think that we as as sports gas bags, did one
- 27:49Speaker 3: hundred and thirty four days of sports radio without sports
- 27:53Speaker 3: like the whole thing shut down. It was March March eleventh,
- 27:58Speaker 3: twenty twenty, all the way till July two third.
- 28:00Speaker 1: There were no sporting events in America.
- 28:03Speaker 3: There was no There was like Korean baseball we got
- 28:05Speaker 3: to watch on TV and stuff, but.
- 28:07Speaker 5: There were the stupid NASCAR simulation races that games of
- 28:12Speaker 5: horse on zoom on ESPN.
- 28:14Speaker 3: Remember, Yeah, I was bringing up Marble racing, is what
- 28:17Speaker 3: I Hey.
- 28:18Speaker 5: I brought that up on Covino and Rich. I talked
- 28:21Speaker 5: about how I'll never forget you doing the monologue on
- 28:24Speaker 5: the Marble Race Championship.
- 28:26Speaker 1: Yeah, And I gave the.
- 28:29Speaker 5: Hosts a lot of props because I remember our boss
- 28:32Speaker 5: Scott Shapiro getting all of us on a zoom saying,
- 28:35Speaker 5: and not sure how long this is going to last,
- 28:38Speaker 5: but without games, we really you know, this was when
- 28:41Speaker 5: we knew there was going to be no tournament and
- 28:43Speaker 5: the NBA said no more, and we thought, oh is
- 28:47Speaker 5: this going to go for a long time. Nobody was
- 28:50Speaker 5: really sure, and I remember Scott Shapiro telling all of
- 28:53Speaker 5: us producers, this is when you got to dig down
- 28:55Speaker 5: deep and find some really entertaining content that's not on
- 29:00Speaker 5: the surface. You're going to have to dig and work hard. Yeah,
- 29:03Speaker 5: and I'll never forget that zoom call. Everybody was nervous.
- 29:07Speaker 5: We didn't know if there were going to be a
- 29:08Speaker 5: lot less listeners, and it turned out there were so
- 29:11Speaker 5: many more because people had all this extra time on
- 29:14Speaker 5: their hands and they were trapped and they wanted some comfort,
- 29:17Speaker 5: just like that caller was alluding to.
- 29:20Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's true.
- 29:21Speaker 3: We had the most listeners we've ever had in the
- 29:24Speaker 3: history of the network. Twenty five years now and the
- 29:26Speaker 3: network's been on and the most listeners were during the pandemic.
- 29:30Speaker 3: Which does that say that we're not good at talking
- 29:33Speaker 3: about sports.
- 29:34Speaker 1: I don't know. But it was crazy and I have
- 29:37Speaker 1: and we still.
- 29:38Speaker 3: Get I get letters today from people that started listening
- 29:41Speaker 3: during the pandemic that have been with me and with
- 29:44Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio ever since then, just kind of hanging
- 29:47Speaker 3: out with us because they were just people couldn't sleep,
- 29:49Speaker 3: they were up at night, they couldn't know deal with life.
- 29:52Speaker 4: You know.
- 29:52Speaker 5: Been The memories of this bothered Covino so much that
- 29:57Speaker 5: during the segment he had to stand up and talk.
- 30:01Speaker 5: As he was standing in right when we went to commercials,
- 30:03Speaker 5: he went outside and did a lap. He had COVID
- 30:06Speaker 5: to the point where he was in the hospital and
- 30:08Speaker 5: a priest came in and gave him a rosary and
- 30:11Speaker 5: prayed over him. So he thought he was a goner
- 30:13Speaker 5: during COVID.
- 30:15Speaker 1: That's crazy.
- 30:16Speaker 3: It's it was a wild time, and you know it's
- 30:19Speaker 3: you think you're we don't do list as you know, Danny,
- 30:22Speaker 3: We're not to a list show, but on Big Ben's
- 30:24Speaker 3: big board that COVID, And then I remember driving I
- 30:28Speaker 3: was at the Fox lot on nine to eleven doing
- 30:31Speaker 3: updates when then that happened, and then driving past Lax
- 30:36Speaker 3: with no flights because all the airports were closed. I
- 30:38Speaker 3: remember remember that had actually been in New York two
- 30:42Speaker 3: weeks prior to nine to eleven in the World Trade
- 30:44Speaker 3: Center and the famous story September I was. I was
- 30:50Speaker 3: there in like late August, like the last couple of
- 30:53Speaker 3: days of August, in before nine to eleven, and we
- 30:57Speaker 3: were in the lobby of the World Trade Center, the
- 31:00Speaker 3: observation deck, and it was about four fifteen in the
- 31:05Speaker 3: afternoon or something like that, and they were charging an
- 31:09Speaker 3: ungodly amount of money to take the elevator up to
- 31:11Speaker 3: the observation deck. And they said at five o'clock you're
- 31:14Speaker 3: gonna have to leave. So I said, screw that, I'm
- 31:18Speaker 3: not paying that money. I'll come back. I remember I
- 31:20Speaker 3: tell my brothers, I said, oh, I'll come back. You know,
- 31:24Speaker 3: these things aren't going anywhere, and I'll come back next
- 31:26Speaker 3: time I'm in New York.
- 31:27Speaker 1: And they did go. They were gone. But so after
- 31:29Speaker 1: that I.
- 31:30Speaker 3: Did learn that lesson to always even if you only
- 31:33Speaker 3: have a few minutes, ye know't do it.
- 31:35Speaker 1: You never know what's going to happen and all that.
- 31:36Speaker 3: But anyway, on that note, I think we will put
- 31:38Speaker 3: the baby to bed here enjoy the college basketball today.
- 31:42Speaker 3: So I know by the end of the weekend we'll
- 31:43Speaker 3: be down to the sweet sixteen. So we down to
- 31:45Speaker 3: by the end of the day today, is it the
- 31:48Speaker 3: twenty four? Are we down to twenty four teams?
- 31:51Speaker 1: Is that right?
- 31:51Speaker 4: I think you're right.
- 31:53Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so we go to twenty four today and
- 31:55Speaker 3: then by the end of tomorrow it'll be down to
- 31:59Speaker 3: the sweet sixteen. Anyway, all right, well we'll do the
- 32:00Speaker 3: math on that. The math ain't math, and I think
- 32:02Speaker 3: I'm writing into that though I'm not a numbers guy,
- 32:04Speaker 3: but that doesn't seem to add up.
- 32:06Speaker 4: How dare you?
- 32:07Speaker 1: All right? Have a great rest of your day today.
- 32:09Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 32:10Speaker 3: We'll have a mailbag podcast, a brand spanking new mailbag
- 32:14Speaker 3: podcast obviously tomorrow, and we'll catch you then later.
- 32:19Speaker 4: Skater my Folation