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- 0:00Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
- 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 sol fashion of fairness. He
- 0:12Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
- 0:15Speaker 2: rich pill poppers.
- 0:16Speaker 3: In the penthouse.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Wow to clearing House of hot takes, break free for
- 0:21Speaker 2: something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler starts right now.
- 0:28Speaker 1: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
- 0:34Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny g Radio. A Happy Friday to you,
- 0:38Speaker 1: as we had NFL football if you want to call
- 0:42Speaker 1: it that last night the Cowboys. How about the Cowboys
- 0:46Speaker 1: and the Philadelphia Eagles. And it's on all weekend and
- 0:50Speaker 1: we have a lot to get to over the course
- 0:52Speaker 1: of the weekend. New podcast on Saturday and Sunday. But
- 0:56Speaker 1: today is the Friday Podcast, And rather than rehash happened
- 1:00Speaker 1: last night, instead, we are going to go back down
- 1:03Speaker 1: memory lane and way before my run at Fox Sports
- 1:08Speaker 1: Radio and my time doing the overnight show. At one
- 1:12Speaker 1: point I was working the dreaded day shift. I had
- 1:15Speaker 1: a mid day talk show at a very young age,
- 1:19Speaker 1: The Ben and Dave, The Ben and Dave show if
- 1:23Speaker 1: you listen to me in southern California way back in
- 1:26Speaker 1: the day in the nineteen nineties, I started I was
- 1:29Speaker 1: a young lad starting my broadcasting career with the Ben
- 1:32Speaker 1: and Dave Show at the studios of AM eleven fifty
- 1:36Speaker 1: in Burbank, as Menuel from Guardina likes to say, and
- 1:40Speaker 1: it was the Ben and Dave Show. And the guy
- 1:42Speaker 1: that I did the show with the first ever tag
- 1:45Speaker 1: team talk show that I did Dave Smith, who you
- 1:49Speaker 1: hear as he works at actually one of our competitors
- 1:53Speaker 1: does some filling stuff over there and whatnot. So Dave
- 1:57Speaker 1: popping up here with me actually did his podcast and
- 2:02Speaker 1: we went back and forth there on the Dave Smith Podcast,
- 2:05Speaker 1: which is on YouTube some of the great stories. So
- 2:07Speaker 1: this is kind of an add on. You want to
- 2:10Speaker 1: listen to this podcast and then go back and hear
- 2:14Speaker 1: those three podcasts. I did three podcasts about stories we did.
- 2:17Speaker 1: The Ben and Dave Show aired in middays, it was
- 2:20Speaker 1: on at night as well. It broadcasts in the late
- 2:23Speaker 1: nineteen nineties up until the year two thousand and then
- 2:29Speaker 1: that was it. Ick Snay on the show A but
- 2:32Speaker 1: fond Memories, A golden era of sports radio an era
- 2:36Speaker 1: before social media and a much different world, much different
- 2:40Speaker 1: world back in the late nineteen ninety. So we welcome
- 2:43Speaker 1: in a guy that is known as the sports god,
- 2:46Speaker 1: Dave Smith. So, Dave, let's start with this little broadcasting
- 2:51Speaker 1: one to oh one. Back in the day, we were
- 2:52Speaker 1: doing a show from Staples Center. That was what it
- 2:56Speaker 1: was called back then, Staple Center downtown Los Angeles. In
- 3:00Speaker 1: the show and we had an intern. It was a
- 3:03Speaker 1: man on the street segment gone bad? Dave, do you
- 3:06Speaker 1: remember that storre? Do you remember that time was?
- 3:10Speaker 3: And by the way, thanks for having me on.
- 3:12Speaker 4: I'm a proud member of the Malla Militia Malon Militia
- 3:14Speaker 4: out man.
- 3:15Speaker 3: So this is great stuff.
- 3:16Speaker 4: Was that the night they had a ryot outside after
- 3:18Speaker 4: the Lakers won the championship and they were overturning cars
- 3:21Speaker 4: and lighting fires outside our studio.
- 3:23Speaker 1: Well, no, this was actually we'll get to that, but
- 3:25Speaker 1: this was before that. We had an intern. We were
- 3:30Speaker 1: doing a daytime it was midday show. The day out.
- 3:33Speaker 1: The Clippers had played the Lakers, right, and the Clippers
- 3:37Speaker 1: had scored I think they had scored like three points
- 3:40Speaker 1: in a quarter or something like that, and you came
- 3:43Speaker 1: up with the brilliant idea. Dave, knowing that I like
- 3:46Speaker 1: the Clippers, You're like, hey, why don't we We had
- 3:50Speaker 1: an intern, so why don't we send the intern out
- 3:53Speaker 1: and get signatures to move the Clippers back to San Diego?
- 3:56Speaker 3: I remember now, yeah, yeah.
- 3:59Speaker 1: So this is one of the classic Ben and Dave stories.
- 4:02Speaker 1: So this this dopey intern goes out. There's all these
- 4:06Speaker 1: people in downtown Los Angeles that are going to lunch
- 4:09Speaker 1: or whatever. And I'll never forget Dave. The uh, the
- 4:15Speaker 1: interns getting signatures. Right, I got a few signatures, and
- 4:18Speaker 1: this guy comes walking into where we were broadcasting from.
- 4:21Speaker 1: Do you remember this? He had he had a tie on,
- 4:24Speaker 1: he had kind of a suit.
- 4:26Speaker 3: Yeah, he was.
- 4:26Speaker 4: He was scheduled to come on. He was a Clippers executive.
- 4:28Speaker 4: I remember it was.
- 4:30Speaker 1: It was Andy Roser, Donald Sterling's right hand man who
- 4:36Speaker 1: the intern asked to sign a petition move the Clippers
- 4:42Speaker 1: back to San Diego.
- 4:49Speaker 3: Oh, classic stuff on the interns.
- 4:51Speaker 1: Huh, Andy, Dave did not seem too pleased that we
- 4:54Speaker 1: were doing. He did not seem happy.
- 4:57Speaker 4: You think the intern would know since he walked to
- 5:00Speaker 4: the studio and he was scheduled for an interview, and
- 5:02Speaker 4: he was wearing a suit and tie. It might not
- 5:03Speaker 4: be the best guy to ask to move back to
- 5:06Speaker 4: San Diego.
- 5:08Speaker 1: Well, hey, that whole thing blew up with sterling Man
- 5:12Speaker 1: a couple of years after many years after that, right
- 5:14Speaker 1: with that whole the whole scandal, that was a that
- 5:18Speaker 1: was a hot mess. But you mentioned so you brought
- 5:20Speaker 1: it up, so we have to talk about this. We
- 5:22Speaker 1: were broadcasting the Lakers had had a pretty long drought,
- 5:27Speaker 1: right they won in the eighties, They hadn't won in
- 5:30Speaker 1: a while. I guess relatively speaking, this is the twelve
- 5:34Speaker 1: years you have been twelve years. Oh my god, twelve
- 5:36Speaker 1: years so long. Anyway, it was the first championship with
- 5:39Speaker 1: Kobe and Shack and we were broadcasting from that same
- 5:44Speaker 1: corner which is now I don't even know it's there,
- 5:47Speaker 1: And it was like a restaurant or something. I don't
- 5:48Speaker 1: know it's there, maybe not maybe his store. I think
- 5:50Speaker 1: it might be a Nike store. But we before when
- 5:53Speaker 1: the arena open, were just broadcasting there, and so we
- 5:56Speaker 1: were we were broadcasting after the Laker game after they won,
- 6:00Speaker 1: and things got completely Oh my god, do you do
- 6:04Speaker 1: you remember? There was like a bonfire in the street.
- 6:08Speaker 4: They lit police cars on fire. And then the remember
- 6:11Speaker 4: the window was right next to the street, and everybody
- 6:13Speaker 4: was rioting and lighting stuff on fire, and they were
- 6:15Speaker 4: they were grabbing women and dragging them away down the street.
- 6:18Speaker 4: And then and we were and they were, remember Ben,
- 6:21Speaker 4: they were beating on the window with their fists, screaming
- 6:24Speaker 4: at us.
- 6:24Speaker 3: And I said, there's not enough comps.
- 6:26Speaker 4: They're gonna they're gonna break into the studio here, and
- 6:28Speaker 4: Kigos both, this is our last show.
- 6:30Speaker 3: We better sign it off now.
- 6:32Speaker 1: You remember one of our bosses, we were both we
- 6:35Speaker 1: were like freaked out. We were like, holy crap, we're
- 6:37Speaker 1: gonna get We're gonna get destroyed here by these lunatics.
- 6:41Speaker 1: And one of our bosses got very upset with us.
- 6:44Speaker 1: This is this is not a riot. Nineteen eighty four,
- 6:48Speaker 1: Sure this was a riot. This is not a riot.
- 6:51Speaker 4: I remember we We said to him, they're lighting police
- 6:54Speaker 4: cars on fire, they're beating women, they're lighting bonfires, they're
- 6:58Speaker 4: beating on the window threatening.
- 7:00Speaker 3: Guess we got to get out of here. And he said,
- 7:01Speaker 3: don't you dare leave, don't you dare.
- 7:04Speaker 4: They're gonna kill us. They're gonna kill us. Do your
- 7:07Speaker 4: job broadcast.
- 7:08Speaker 1: Yeah, and he wanted this like downplay. He wanted to
- 7:11Speaker 1: do what was going on. But we were remember that
- 7:14Speaker 1: there was that that woman who was on roller skates.
- 7:17Speaker 1: I still remember her.
- 7:18Speaker 3: I don't know who it was.
- 7:19Speaker 1: He had headphones on, she was listening to the show.
- 7:21Speaker 1: She had roller skates on. And that poor woman by
- 7:24Speaker 1: herself and these lunatics they were doing like a tribal dance.
- 7:27Speaker 1: Did you remember? They were doing like a tribal dance
- 7:29Speaker 1: around the fire, like singing, and it was, uh, it
- 7:33Speaker 1: was unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it. And it
- 7:36Speaker 1: just it happened while we were on the air, like
- 7:38Speaker 1: we were. One minute, we're talking about the I think
- 7:40Speaker 1: they played the pacers beating the pacers, and the next thing,
- 7:43Speaker 1: the next thing, there's uh, it was.
- 7:46Speaker 4: It was that that poor girl on the skates. They
- 7:49Speaker 4: were trying to rip her clothes off right in front
- 7:50Speaker 4: of the window. And then we told the boss, this
- 7:53Speaker 4: is chaos. They're gonna kill us, and he said, can't
- 7:56Speaker 4: you two ever be positive?
- 7:57Speaker 3: What's wrong with you two guys?
- 7:59Speaker 4: Yeah, we're positive they're gonna try and kill us.
- 8:04Speaker 3: That's what we're positive about.
- 8:05Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Yeah, Well that we did get the l A. P. D.
- 8:08Speaker 1: Riot Polace. Remember they came in because they had a bathroom,
- 8:10Speaker 1: so they would come and go to the bathroom and
- 8:12Speaker 1: then go back out and fight the fight the lunatics.
- 8:15Speaker 1: Now the other part about that night, Dave, do you remember,
- 8:20Speaker 1: I think, I don't know if this was your idea,
- 8:22Speaker 1: my idea, but we decided we needed a roving reporter
- 8:26Speaker 1: because the like downtown was on fire, because the Lakers
- 8:29Speaker 1: wanted to so we sent They sent Vic the Brick, Jacobs,
- 8:33Speaker 1: the Great the Brick. We sent him out there as
- 8:37Speaker 1: a man on the street reporter. And you remember the
- 8:41Speaker 1: crowd was chanting his name, Dave. They loved him, that
- 8:43Speaker 1: they loved him. Yeah, he was like a hero, and
- 8:46Speaker 1: he was he was called and even Vic was trying
- 8:48Speaker 1: to downplay it's not that bad as there's fire burning
- 8:51Speaker 1: in the background.
- 8:53Speaker 5: He was our bad dad mom that night, nothing telling
- 9:00Speaker 5: them YouTube guys, there's no problem with a police car
- 9:04Speaker 5: burning behind them, when people beating the hell out of
- 9:05Speaker 5: each other, and there's no problem here them.
- 9:09Speaker 1: The infidels, you infidels.
- 9:12Speaker 4: It was so good. And then the other remember how
- 9:15Speaker 4: late the cops were to diffuse the situation there.
- 9:17Speaker 3: They took forever to get there.
- 9:19Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We were watching it all unfold
- 9:22Speaker 1: and uh, it was it was full on like they were.
- 9:26Speaker 1: That street was the worst, right in front of the arena,
- 9:29Speaker 1: but they were like seven eleven's and other stuff down there. Uh.
- 9:32Speaker 1: And then I remember walking to the car after we
- 9:36Speaker 1: got done with the broadcast, things had calmed down. There
- 9:38Speaker 1: were still a bunch of police out and I walked
- 9:40Speaker 1: by there was a Channel two newsman that got completely
- 9:43Speaker 1: burned up. You mentioned the police car.
- 9:46Speaker 3: Uh.
- 9:46Speaker 1: I think there's one or two police cars that got
- 9:48Speaker 1: burned by the by the mob. And do you remember,
- 9:51Speaker 1: Dave also that Channel two in Los Angeles blamed our
- 9:56Speaker 1: radio station for inciting the right. It blamed us because
- 10:03Speaker 1: the station, remember that they said they had passed out
- 10:06Speaker 1: flyers for some movie that had fire on them. I
- 10:09Speaker 1: don't know whatever the movie was in nineteen ninety nine
- 10:11Speaker 1: or whatever it was, but they are two thousand, but
- 10:13Speaker 1: they had these flyers that that are our station logo.
- 10:16Speaker 1: But it was a movie and it was a partnership
- 10:18Speaker 1: deal with the movie studio and they passed these out
- 10:21Speaker 1: and I think it was I forget the I used
- 10:23Speaker 1: to know the rec stone or something like that. There
- 10:25Speaker 1: was a reporter for Channel two. She did a whole
- 10:27Speaker 1: thing on the news back when people used to watch
- 10:29Speaker 1: the news, and she blamed us. They blamed us for first.
- 10:34Speaker 1: I mean, what did we do? We didn't do anything?
- 10:36Speaker 3: Well, see what was right, Ben? It was our fault.
- 10:38Speaker 4: The gang banger showed up and beat the hell out
- 10:40Speaker 4: of people and burned down seven eleven's and looted and rioted.
- 10:42Speaker 3: It was all our fause. It was correct, clearly, it.
- 10:45Speaker 1: Was the Ben and Dave Show. That was our That
- 10:47Speaker 1: was our doing. Another memory I had And by the way, Dave,
- 10:52Speaker 1: your podcast, we did three episodes right me and we
- 10:55Speaker 1: were three episodes on your.
- 10:57Speaker 3: Plot freeze up right now? Ben, it's posted now.
- 11:00Speaker 1: All right? And how can people find the podcast? How
- 11:03Speaker 1: can they find your podcast?
- 11:04Speaker 4: It's like you go to YouTube and do it at
- 11:07Speaker 4: the Dave Smith Unleashed Podcast YouTube at the Day Smith
- 11:12Speaker 4: Unleased podcast and right now Part three of David Smith
- 11:15Speaker 4: with Ben Maller of the old Ben and Dave Show
- 11:17Speaker 4: and Part one and part two are also posted as well,
- 11:19Speaker 4: so they can get all the Ben Mallord they ever
- 11:21Speaker 4: want with those three shows.
- 11:24Speaker 1: The other thing here now these are all and those
- 11:27Speaker 1: amazing stories. The Jiffy Loops story is still one of
- 11:29Speaker 1: my favorites. We talked about that amazing story on your podcast.
- 11:34Speaker 1: Now something we did not bring up, and I was
- 11:37Speaker 1: going through some of my old stuff. I keep a
- 11:39Speaker 1: lot of old notes from different things in the past.
- 11:41Speaker 1: But there was a guy who was one of the
- 11:43Speaker 1: biggest trolls in the history of trolls before social media.
- 11:48Speaker 1: Like social media is all about trolling, right, Dave, and
- 11:49Speaker 1: people get on their ahole, of course schmucks. You know.
- 11:53Speaker 1: I don't know what's real and what's not. But on
- 11:56Speaker 1: the Ben and Dave show we had it was really you.
- 11:58Speaker 1: I was brought into this. I was like the stepchild
- 12:02Speaker 1: into this. There was a gentleman named Bimbo Bruce.
- 12:05Speaker 3: Oh, he was the best.
- 12:08Speaker 1: And we didn't have sociald We had a fax machine
- 12:11Speaker 1: and did you I didn't know who Do you ever
- 12:14Speaker 1: find out who he was? I had no idea he
- 12:17Speaker 1: was a man of mess.
- 12:19Speaker 3: We got his.
- 12:19Speaker 4: Last name and he lived in the Huntington Beach. We
- 12:22Speaker 4: knew that about him, and we had his home phone
- 12:23Speaker 4: number two.
- 12:25Speaker 1: Okay, okay, this guy would send how many factses during
- 12:29Speaker 1: the show. It was endless. It was nice, one.
- 12:31Speaker 4: After another after another, just ripping us about how horrible
- 12:34Speaker 4: the show was. Remember, and the studio set up a
- 12:38Speaker 4: call in special call in.
- 12:39Speaker 3: Number to give your thoughts on the shows all the time.
- 12:42Speaker 4: So he called that thing every night and it was
- 12:44Speaker 4: nothing but cursing and swearing and talking about what idiots
- 12:47Speaker 4: we both were. And then we played that on the
- 12:49Speaker 4: air every night and they had to hit the bleep button.
- 12:52Speaker 4: We had to send it to the to the engineer
- 12:53Speaker 4: to get the bleep button in time. It was full
- 12:55Speaker 4: of f bombs.
- 12:56Speaker 1: He would write drawings, often very very blue Dave about
- 13:01Speaker 1: you specifically. He didn't like me either, but he I
- 13:05Speaker 1: think he really had it out for you.
- 13:07Speaker 3: But he would trouble he did.
- 13:08Speaker 1: The guy listened to everything we ever did on the
- 13:10Speaker 1: Ben and Dave Show like he knew everything that we did,
- 13:14Speaker 1: sometimes before we did it. And he would like, this
- 13:17Speaker 1: guy you talk about losers, Dave, this guy must have
- 13:20Speaker 1: had no life. He listened to every single show we
- 13:22Speaker 1: ever did and immediately would would send off a fax NonStop.
- 13:27Speaker 1: It was it was insane.
- 13:28Speaker 4: We did We did a I don't know if it
- 13:29Speaker 4: was you or not. Man, it might have been with Zoe.
- 13:31Speaker 4: But we did a remote one time at the National
- 13:34Speaker 4: Sports Squirrel in Anaheim, right across the street from Angels Stadium,
- 13:37Speaker 4: and somebody said to the producer there's a package for you,
- 13:40Speaker 4: and he ran out and brought it. Internet was a
- 13:42Speaker 4: bouquet of flowers and it said from bib Bo Bruce
- 13:45Speaker 4: f you.
- 13:48Speaker 1: I think.
- 13:48Speaker 4: I think then our producer charged out there and tried
- 13:51Speaker 4: to catch him, but he was already gone.
- 13:53Speaker 3: Wow.
- 13:54Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I was actually at that. I remember
- 13:56Speaker 1: that it was you. I think I was. I remember
- 13:58Speaker 1: doing some National Sports Those are all gone, right, I
- 14:00Speaker 1: think those things I think so, Yeah, those places where
- 14:03Speaker 1: they were bumping back up, I mean that was that
- 14:06Speaker 1: was the way to do. Now. I will not say
- 14:08Speaker 1: the name of the person, Dave, but do you remember
- 14:12Speaker 1: because we don't wanna, we don't want to, you know,
- 14:14Speaker 1: out the the guilty here, but one of the people
- 14:17Speaker 1: that worked at the station, Uh, they were faxing their contract.
- 14:21Speaker 1: Do you remember this? They were facting their contracted like
- 14:23Speaker 1: their agent or something like that.
- 14:25Speaker 3: Yeah, they left it in the and they left it
- 14:27Speaker 3: in the copy machine.
- 14:28Speaker 1: Yes, and we all found out how much this person making,
- 14:31Speaker 1: which was probably what ten times what we were all
- 14:33Speaker 1: making day, right.
- 14:36Speaker 4: I remember we were doing a remote on top of
- 14:38Speaker 4: a I think it was on top of the Capitol
- 14:41Speaker 4: Records Building at Holly. Yes, Big Joe McDonald came to
- 14:46Speaker 4: visit us and we showed it to him. I thought
- 14:48Speaker 4: we were going to lose him that night. He was
- 14:49Speaker 4: on the phone screaming at our boss, screaming at his agent,
- 14:52Speaker 4: screaming at everybody.
- 14:53Speaker 3: How can this guy be making this much money? Yeah?
- 14:57Speaker 1: Well, that that Hollywood Capitol Records Building remote was hilarious
- 15:01Speaker 1: because it was for UCLA football. You remember they were
- 15:04Speaker 1: trying to get in the Sugar Bowl, so it was
- 15:05Speaker 1: like share the sugar and we were gonna stop the
- 15:08Speaker 1: Hollywood Records Building. Well, one thing they did not factor in.
- 15:11Speaker 1: We were up there at night. We were doing the
- 15:13Speaker 1: show at night broadcasting, and I remember there was El Nino,
- 15:17Speaker 1: and the boss did not realize the roof on the
- 15:20Speaker 1: Capitol Records Building in Hollywood floods.
- 15:27Speaker 4: And that was another one we said, we got to
- 15:28Speaker 4: get out of here. Is El Nino. The roof's gonna collapse.
- 15:31Speaker 4: Why you guys are always so negative?
- 15:33Speaker 3: Do your jobs? Yeah?
- 15:34Speaker 1: No, we had all this electrical equipment the roof. There
- 15:38Speaker 1: was like two feet of water on the roof the
- 15:40Speaker 1: Capitol Records building. And the boss is like, just shut
- 15:43Speaker 1: up and do the show. And I'm we're supposed to.
- 15:46Speaker 1: We're gonna die. We're gonna get electric two that the
- 15:48Speaker 1: Bennet Damme Show's gonna die on the radio, and uh yeah.
- 15:52Speaker 1: And I also remember I got really I was big
- 15:54Speaker 1: at that time, Dave. And remember we had a deal
- 15:56Speaker 1: with Chili's Free Chili's remember that. Yeah, Oh, I ate
- 16:00Speaker 1: so much Chili's. Holy crap. I gained so much weight.
- 16:03Speaker 1: They wet as much chilies as we wanted. We had
- 16:06Speaker 1: to do commercials for Chilis, and so we kept getting
- 16:09Speaker 1: boxes and boxes of their different like burgers and whatever
- 16:12Speaker 1: from Chili's. And and you didn't eat that much day
- 16:15Speaker 1: because you were, you know, worried about your figure.
- 16:16Speaker 4: Of course, so you didn't of course, my girlish figure, yes, exactly.
- 16:20Speaker 1: Back back in the day. Another another storyline I remember
- 16:24Speaker 1: from the Ben and Dave show doing the mid day show.
- 16:26Speaker 1: Do you remember we had some adult entertainers that were
- 16:29Speaker 1: fans of the show that that reached out to us.
- 16:31Speaker 1: You remember that back in the.
- 16:34Speaker 3: Famous Randy West, remember famous porn star show.
- 16:38Speaker 1: He was a huge fan, right, massive fan. And uh
- 16:43Speaker 1: he showed up to one of our our remonts. He
- 16:46Speaker 1: remember we did a.
- 16:46Speaker 3: Remember remember the gift he sent us one night?
- 16:49Speaker 1: Oh how can I forget?
- 16:51Speaker 4: He sent us an entire box full of all the
- 16:53Speaker 4: porn movies he'd never made on VHS.
- 16:57Speaker 3: Was a special gift to us.
- 16:58Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it was never the women that listened though,
- 17:02Speaker 1: The women porn stars never listened to Dave. It was,
- 17:04Speaker 1: of course the men. We had a Holly and You
- 17:09Speaker 1: were doing a show from I think it was in
- 17:11Speaker 1: Burbank at a at a shoe store in Burbank. He
- 17:16Speaker 1: had an actor showed up. Do you remember it was
- 17:20Speaker 1: was it Nicholas to Turo? Is he the guy that
- 17:22Speaker 1: show Turo?
- 17:23Speaker 3: Yeah? From NYPD Blue. He showed up out of the blue.
- 17:27Speaker 1: Yeah, that was like, yeah, he was a huge fan
- 17:30Speaker 1: and he and that was when that show was really popping,
- 17:32Speaker 1: Like he was a big deal in LA and television.
- 17:36Speaker 1: That was a very popular show. And he showed up
- 17:39Speaker 1: to a shoe store in Burbank to say hello to us.
- 17:42Speaker 4: I remember one time we were doing a show on
- 17:44Speaker 4: Ventura Boulevard. I think in Tarazanna Moorencino, and he pulled
- 17:48Speaker 4: up right in front. That was the second time you
- 17:49Speaker 4: showed it. He pulled in front, said I was listening.
- 17:51Speaker 4: I live right down the street from here. And then
- 17:53Speaker 4: he came up and he said, I'm telling you what,
- 17:55Speaker 4: I got a brand new television show coming out of Seriously, sitcom.
- 17:58Speaker 4: You two are in. I guarantee you're in. You're gonna
- 18:00Speaker 4: be on the show. We're gonna get you. So we're
- 18:02Speaker 4: going to get you your acting card. Now we're still
- 18:04Speaker 4: waiting for that man. It never happened.
- 18:05Speaker 1: Well, hey, we're still around, so he's still so why not?
- 18:11Speaker 1: What the heck? Now, Speaking of remotes, here's another classic one.
- 18:14Speaker 1: It was the was it the twentieth anniversary of Animal House?
- 18:18Speaker 1: Do you remember this in Westwood?
- 18:19Speaker 3: Well? Is that when we've dusched up in Togas.
- 18:21Speaker 1: Yes, yes, they had a big party all the living actors.
- 18:27Speaker 1: A lot of those guys had already died, but a
- 18:29Speaker 1: lot of the actors and the producers, the people that
- 18:31Speaker 1: made Animal House at this place in Westwood near Ucla,
- 18:35Speaker 1: And so the boss is like, hey, let's put you
- 18:36Speaker 1: guys in Togas. Do you remember I remember going into
- 18:39Speaker 1: the men's room at that bar, Dave. I mean we
- 18:41Speaker 1: both had this look like this is about as low
- 18:43Speaker 1: as we can possibly get. We are both, you know,
- 18:46Speaker 1: we're talk show hosts. Were dressed in togas. We had
- 18:49Speaker 1: to take our We had a change into togas in
- 18:51Speaker 1: a bathroom at this cheesy bar in uh Westwood, and
- 18:56Speaker 1: then went out and we were doing some of it.
- 18:58Speaker 1: I remember standing on Westwood Vulte, which is very busy,
- 19:01Speaker 1: in my toga too. I don't look good, Daven, clothesed,
- 19:05Speaker 1: I didn't toga. That was a bad Everyone's looking staring
- 19:10Speaker 1: like like we were zoo animals, you know what.
- 19:13Speaker 4: A guy that I don't know if you were standing
- 19:14Speaker 4: next to me, I was doing on a bracket, was
- 19:16Speaker 4: outside in front of the place in my.
- 19:17Speaker 3: Toga with all the cars going by. I don't know
- 19:19Speaker 3: if you're there.
- 19:20Speaker 4: Some guys stopped the car and he rolled down the
- 19:22Speaker 4: window and looked at me and he said.
- 19:24Speaker 3: I didn't know there are any gay bars around here,
- 19:26Speaker 3: and then he drove off.
- 19:30Speaker 1: Well, you gonna go over to West Hollywood, which is
- 19:32Speaker 1: down the road there. You got the uh, you get
- 19:34Speaker 1: all that, uh, but.
- 19:35Speaker 4: You can understand a guy standing in a toga in
- 19:37Speaker 4: the middle of Westwood Boulevard.
- 19:39Speaker 1: Right, oh yeah, I mean, of course, come on now,
- 19:41Speaker 1: please do that every day. Now. We spent a lot
- 19:44Speaker 1: of time. I think I spent more time here than
- 19:46Speaker 1: you did. But adults in burbank right oh, yes, across
- 19:50Speaker 1: the street. And I tell people's stories about dults, Dave,
- 19:54Speaker 1: and people don't understand. This was the epicenter of entertainment
- 20:00Speaker 1: in la. It's not Hollywood. It was Dults. It was
- 20:02Speaker 1: right right next to Warner Brothers. You had all the
- 20:05Speaker 1: all the radio stations were there. You had our building
- 20:08Speaker 1: which had all the iHeart which was back then called
- 20:12Speaker 1: something Else, and you had the building with all the
- 20:14Speaker 1: other stations. The other cluster was in that, and then
- 20:17Speaker 1: in the building Dolts was in. We would go in
- 20:19Speaker 1: there and remember at night there would be like actors
- 20:22Speaker 1: from Seinfeld and all the popular show nineties would be
- 20:26Speaker 1: in there, Drew Carey show. They'd be in there, eating, drinking,
- 20:30Speaker 1: having a good time. And we spent so many nights
- 20:33Speaker 1: in that little bar area. And those chicken fingers were amazing,
- 20:36Speaker 1: Oh my.
- 20:36Speaker 3: God, oh they were the best. Oh my god.
- 20:38Speaker 1: Yes, I have so many great memories of adults. One
- 20:42Speaker 1: of my favorite memories though, Dave, see if you remember this,
- 20:46Speaker 1: Do you remember the night which this was like ninety
- 20:51Speaker 1: ninety eight, it must have been ninety the Olympics were
- 20:53Speaker 1: going on and we got pre empted by Women's Olympic hockey.
- 20:57Speaker 1: Do you remember this?
- 20:59Speaker 3: Yes?
- 21:00Speaker 1: So our boss is like, listen, it's a trial sport.
- 21:04Speaker 1: We're going to put it on the radio. Soa, who
- 21:05Speaker 1: the hell wants to listen to that? Because it was
- 21:07Speaker 1: on tape delay? Do you remember? It was on tape
- 21:09Speaker 1: delay from somewhere in Asia or something. I think it
- 21:11Speaker 1: was an Asian but it doesn't matter. So it was
- 21:13Speaker 1: on table. So he's like, listen, just stay in the area.
- 21:16Speaker 1: You're not going to go on. I just want you
- 21:18Speaker 1: in the air just in case the game goes short.
- 21:21Speaker 1: So me, you and who else was with us? There
- 21:23Speaker 1: was somebody else I forget who.
- 21:24Speaker 3: Was with it. We mean David or our producer.
- 21:27Speaker 1: Yeah, it might have been our producer, Gear Moor or whatever.
- 21:30Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
- 21:31Speaker 1: He went over to dults and started drinking. I'm not
- 21:34Speaker 1: a big drinker, but we were drinking and we were
- 21:37Speaker 1: like mfing the station, like how could they do this
- 21:39Speaker 1: to us?
- 21:39Speaker 3: Right?
- 21:40Speaker 1: You know, I mean, come on, I mean we're to
- 21:42Speaker 1: hear us than that. And we got a call from
- 21:46Speaker 1: the boss, or maybe it wasn't maybe it was Mark
- 21:48Speaker 1: Smith who said, you guys, you got to get back
- 21:50Speaker 1: over here. And it was the only time ever in
- 21:53Speaker 1: my career I broadcast drunk. Dave. Remember, I was hammered.
- 21:57Speaker 1: I was hammered. I waddled across the street. We got
- 22:00Speaker 1: back in the stodo. I cursed multiple time. I remember
- 22:02Speaker 1: Mark Smith, our boardop, came over and punched me because
- 22:05Speaker 1: I kept cursing because I had no filter, Dave, I was,
- 22:08Speaker 1: I was drinking beer. We were having a good time.
- 22:11Speaker 1: We were you know, we didn't think we were going
- 22:12Speaker 1: to be on, and they put us on and it
- 22:15Speaker 1: was it was nuts.
- 22:17Speaker 3: I remember.
- 22:17Speaker 4: I remember one time I was doing a show by
- 22:19Speaker 4: myself up there on the eighth floor for some reason,
- 22:21Speaker 4: might have been after a fight or something.
- 22:22Speaker 3: So and then I'm doing the show.
- 22:24Speaker 4: And I had a couple of recorded interviews for the
- 22:25Speaker 4: last half hour. They were already done, so I remember
- 22:27Speaker 4: Bobby our boardop. But Bobby says, hey, man, you can
- 22:32Speaker 4: go home now. The last half hours all recorded. You
- 22:34Speaker 4: don't need to stick around here. I said, are you sure,
- 22:36Speaker 4: and he said, yeah, yeah, I go on home, so
- 22:38Speaker 4: get my car.
- 22:38Speaker 3: I'm on the freeway about twenty minutes away. And you
- 22:40Speaker 3: know what I heard?
- 22:41Speaker 4: Men?
- 22:41Speaker 3: I heard.
- 22:47Speaker 4: And then I get a call I get your ass
- 22:48Speaker 4: back over.
- 22:49Speaker 3: That was the one only time I ever left early.
- 22:51Speaker 3: I learned my lives of that night.
- 22:53Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've had I used to do updates, and
- 22:57Speaker 1: we had in the early days of Fox Sports Radio.
- 22:59Speaker 1: We had updates where there was a first half which
- 23:02Speaker 1: was one minute, the second half was two minutes. So
- 23:06Speaker 1: I would record them and I got a long shift.
- 23:09Speaker 1: I would record them. Sometimes in the boardop would would
- 23:12Speaker 1: play them. And I remember driving home. I was in
- 23:15Speaker 1: Hollywood and I turned on the station and the boardop
- 23:19Speaker 1: played the first half of the second half, which is
- 23:21Speaker 1: two minutes in the first part of the update, and
- 23:24Speaker 1: then played played in the second half the one minute.
- 23:26Speaker 1: He totally butchered the whole thing. And there's nothing you
- 23:29Speaker 1: driving around, there's nothing you can do. You're completely helpless
- 23:34Speaker 1: in that situation. That's it. I actually have a mystery
- 23:38Speaker 1: box somewhere in my garage here day of the Ben
- 23:42Speaker 1: and Dave Krt the song Ben and Dave and all
- 23:46Speaker 1: these drops from the Ben and Dave show. When they
- 23:48Speaker 1: and they got rid of the show, I kept him. Unfortunately,
- 23:51Speaker 1: there's really no way to play any of that stuff.
- 23:54Speaker 4: Remember I was having dinner on the Queen Mary one
- 23:56Speaker 4: night in lum Beach, so I was on a date
- 23:58Speaker 4: and there was a live band there, and then they
- 24:00Speaker 4: came over. One of the guys was a big fan
- 24:02Speaker 4: of the Ben and Dame show, and I said, hey,
- 24:04Speaker 4: put together. That's how the song got put together. He
- 24:06Speaker 4: made a recording for us with his band.
- 24:08Speaker 1: That was great. No, that was I love the song.
- 24:11Speaker 2: It was.
- 24:11Speaker 1: Yeah, I wish we could play it if I had.
- 24:13Speaker 1: If I had it on something other than a cart machine,
- 24:15Speaker 1: I would I would like all old technology. Another bit
- 24:20Speaker 1: that we did in those days. Remember when we got
- 24:23Speaker 1: picked up by a limo in Sherman Oaks Dave and
- 24:26Speaker 1: driven out to like San Bernardino or something. We were
- 24:28Speaker 1: Professional wrestling was a wrestling match, Yeah, professional wrestling. I
- 24:33Speaker 1: did not know this, but the ww I think it
- 24:35Speaker 1: was called the WWF. Still, then they have a main
- 24:39Speaker 1: card and then they have the undercard. The undercards that
- 24:43Speaker 1: got a minor league ballpark or something like that. The
- 24:45Speaker 1: main we were doing the minor card the B card,
- 24:48Speaker 1: and we were both celebrity managers at this event. And
- 24:53Speaker 1: there's a couple of things I fondly remember about that night.
- 24:56Speaker 1: Dave the very long limo drive to get out there,
- 25:00Speaker 1: because it seemed like it took forever.
- 25:02Speaker 3: It was in Where was that that was a long
- 25:04Speaker 3: way out? It was a minor league ballpark.
- 25:06Speaker 1: Might have been Rancho Kuckamonger or someone like Elson Elson. Yes,
- 25:10Speaker 1: Lake event basically northern San Diego. So we do all
- 25:14Speaker 1: out there and I was the manager of the headshrinkers.
- 25:17Speaker 1: Who are you the manager of? Do you remember what
- 25:19Speaker 1: you were?
- 25:20Speaker 4: It was that guy I can't remember his name. He
- 25:23Speaker 4: was a British guy that was in the WW for
- 25:25Speaker 4: a long time. Lord something, I can't remember his name. Okay, Yeah,
- 25:29Speaker 4: I was tag team partner and we're in the ring
- 25:32Speaker 4: and the bells about to ring, and he walked over
- 25:34Speaker 4: to me and said, you better get your ass out
- 25:35Speaker 4: of here now.
- 25:37Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 25:38Speaker 1: Yeah, Well we were the last match, or so I
- 25:42Speaker 1: think we were the last match. We were in the
- 25:43Speaker 1: locker room.
- 25:44Speaker 3: Remember we were in.
- 25:44Speaker 1: The locker room and the thing got delayed because there
- 25:48Speaker 1: was this guy. He actually passed away a number of
- 25:50Speaker 1: years ago Viscera I think was called He was this
- 25:52Speaker 1: giant African American guy. I remember Dave, this big black guy.
- 25:55Speaker 1: He had uh he wore like contact lenses. The guy
- 25:59Speaker 1: was like six hundred pound or something like that. He
- 26:01Speaker 1: broke the ring.
- 26:02Speaker 3: Do you read that Kamala?
- 26:03Speaker 1: No, I don't think it was Kamala. It was like
- 26:05Speaker 1: his name. But the guy broke the ring. And it
- 26:09Speaker 1: was the funniest thing because we're in the locker room.
- 26:11Speaker 1: We're like, all right, this got this thing over with,
- 26:13Speaker 1: We want to get back to La whatever. So I
- 26:15Speaker 1: remember the guy came walking in. He had his head down,
- 26:17Speaker 1: very bad, sad body language, and he was apologizing to
- 26:21Speaker 1: the other wrestlers that he because they had to fix
- 26:23Speaker 1: the ring before the thing could continue. And it was
- 26:26Speaker 1: so funny because he had all this makeup. He had
- 26:28Speaker 1: this very you know, tough looking guy with these eye
- 26:31Speaker 1: he had these contacts to give his eyes this weird color.
- 26:34Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, guys, oh
- 26:36Speaker 1: you know. And and the biggest name that was at
- 26:39Speaker 1: that event was one of the iconic figures in wrestling,
- 26:44Speaker 1: George the Animal Steele.
- 26:45Speaker 3: George I was going to bring that up.
- 26:47Speaker 4: Remember we talked to them in the locker room. He
- 26:49Speaker 4: was normally dressed. You know, he was a college professor
- 26:51Speaker 4: in real life. Smart guy was George the Animal Steel.
- 26:55Speaker 1: Very cool. It was so great. I grew up loving
- 26:58Speaker 1: professional wrestling and uh and I like to be in
- 27:01Speaker 1: the same locker room with George the Animal Steel was
- 27:05Speaker 1: next level like.
- 27:06Speaker 3: That wasn't it wasn't the lovely Elizabeth his daughter?
- 27:09Speaker 2: Is that?
- 27:09Speaker 1: I don't Is that true?
- 27:11Speaker 4: Matso Man Savage's manager. I think she was his daughter,
- 27:13Speaker 4: if I'm not mistaken that right.
- 27:15Speaker 1: I did not. I did not know that. I know
- 27:17Speaker 1: a Hulk Hogan just recently passed away.
- 27:18Speaker 3: That was I remember the highlight of the night. Man.
- 27:21Speaker 4: The tag team match was going on and your guys
- 27:22Speaker 4: were losing. Yeah, and one guy got thrown down near
- 27:25Speaker 4: to outside of the ring. He was rolling around and
- 27:28Speaker 4: you grabbed the metal chair.
- 27:29Speaker 3: And handed it to him. Yes, and then he hit
- 27:31Speaker 3: the guy over the head and they won the match.
- 27:33Speaker 1: Yeah, you lost, Dave. I'm undefeated, baby, I'm undefeated as
- 27:37Speaker 1: a professional wrestling celebrity manager. Remember the crowd. There wasn't
- 27:42Speaker 1: a big crowd that night, but there were a lot
- 27:44Speaker 1: of trunks and they were heckling the hell out of us.
- 27:46Speaker 1: You remember, like you losers, who were you exactly they were?
- 27:49Speaker 1: They were busting our balls right and left, and I
- 27:53Speaker 1: guess I want to get out on this. This is
- 27:55Speaker 1: one of my favorite stories. Also from the Ben and
- 27:57Speaker 1: Dave showed Dave is we would do. We had an
- 27:59Speaker 1: appearance at the House of Blues on Sunset below, big event.
- 28:06Speaker 1: I think it was for UCLA. I want to say
- 28:09Speaker 1: it was. I don't remember. Whatever it was for, it
- 28:11Speaker 1: don't matter. So this was like a celebrity party. There
- 28:14Speaker 1: were a lot of clients there. We were there schmoozing
- 28:17Speaker 1: and we had We had a good time, but we
- 28:18Speaker 1: had a show to do. We had we were doing
- 28:20Speaker 1: the show at night. Remember we had to come back
- 28:21Speaker 1: to the radio station. Do you remember what happened? When
- 28:24Speaker 1: we got back to the radio station. It was late
- 28:26Speaker 1: at night. We had both had a couple of drinks,
- 28:28Speaker 1: we had had some food. We had to do a
- 28:31Speaker 1: short show. Do you remember what happened? We got up
- 28:33Speaker 1: to the eighth floor on Riverside. Happened There was this
- 28:37Speaker 1: thick smell of smoke in the building. Because well we
- 28:45Speaker 1: didn't know what had happened. Remember you went up to
- 28:48Speaker 1: Mark Smith. We both went up to Mark. Our board
- 28:51Speaker 1: ops and Mark, what happened? It's so thick our eyes
- 28:54Speaker 1: were watering, it was getting in our lungs, like, what
- 28:57Speaker 1: the happen? What the hell happened? And Mark would not say,
- 29:01Speaker 1: I ain't telling you m blah blah blah blah blah
- 29:03Speaker 1: blah blah. We went down uh to Kiss FM, the
- 29:07Speaker 1: great Valentine who's still on LA Radio day Yeah, yeah,
- 29:11Speaker 1: great dude, love the guy was wonderful, his big morning
- 29:14Speaker 1: guy in LA for twenty years. But Valentine was doing
- 29:17Speaker 1: the night show. We asked him what had happened, and
- 29:20Speaker 1: and then we went back and forth. Eventually we found
- 29:22Speaker 1: out that one of the update guys, who was upset
- 29:26Speaker 1: he didn't go to the House of Blues, was smoking
- 29:28Speaker 1: a cigarette and dropped it in a trash can and
- 29:32Speaker 1: lit the trash can on fire and Dave. The story
- 29:36Speaker 1: is this came within a couple of minutes of turning
- 29:40Speaker 1: all of the sprinkler system on on the floor, which
- 29:44Speaker 1: would have ruined Dave. All of that radio equipment would
- 29:49Speaker 1: have I mean, would have destroyed the entire floor would
- 29:52Speaker 1: have been plunded with water because this guy was smoking
- 29:55Speaker 1: a cigarette on the eighth floor and threw it in
- 29:57Speaker 1: a trash can and a fire.
- 30:00Speaker 4: So that is fun. You remember the time of some
- 30:04Speaker 4: of the best advice I've ever gotten radio. When I
- 30:06Speaker 4: first started, the boss said, always assume the mic is on,
- 30:09Speaker 4: even if you're in a commercial. If you're in front
- 30:11Speaker 4: of a mic, always assume it's on. So I was
- 30:14Speaker 4: driving to work one night, Big Joe McDonald, the Big
- 30:16Speaker 4: Nasty was.
- 30:17Speaker 3: On before us man. Remember that.
- 30:18Speaker 4: Oh yeah, during a commercial break, somebody left the mic
- 30:22Speaker 4: on and he started cursing and f bom m F.
- 30:25Speaker 4: First he was screaming at somebody. It's the most foul
- 30:28Speaker 4: language I've ever heard. For around five minutes straight, all
- 30:30Speaker 4: of it came out over the radio.
- 30:33Speaker 1: That's great that I also recall. Remember the Soup Nazi
- 30:40Speaker 1: guy from Seinfeld. Yes, he had a cigar He had
- 30:43Speaker 1: a cigar show. He taped it on. It was on
- 30:46Speaker 1: the weekends and we went in there. We did the
- 30:49Speaker 1: morning show on Saturday, so sometimes we'd go into the studio.
- 30:51Speaker 1: We usually did remotes. So you remember that there was
- 30:54Speaker 1: so much cigar. You're not supposed to smoke on that floor.
- 30:57Speaker 1: Those guys were sitting around smoking cigars, having a great
- 31:01Speaker 1: time living the dream man that they on on Saturday.
- 31:06Speaker 1: And they also they had all the they were cleaning
- 31:08Speaker 1: the office. I remember the whole building was wide open.
- 31:10Speaker 1: Remember at night when they would be cleaning the offices.
- 31:12Speaker 1: You go around and check it out. I mean, there's
- 31:15Speaker 1: so many great stories to tell, and this is just
- 31:18Speaker 1: scratching the surface. The majority again, the majority of the
- 31:21Speaker 1: stories are on your podcast, Dave. Again, how can people
- 31:24Speaker 1: find the podcast? It's on YouTube, right, you're big, We're
- 31:27Speaker 1: all YouTubers now. I got my Benny versus the Pennies
- 31:30Speaker 1: on YouTube. Now we're all doing the How can people
- 31:32Speaker 1: find it? Want to hear? Because three episodes, that's like,
- 31:35Speaker 1: you know, three hours almost of content. Unbelievable.
- 31:38Speaker 3: Oh my god.
- 31:39Speaker 4: Thanks to my thanks to make great sponsor MTS Transportations
- 31:42Speaker 4: for making this all happen, and Ben for coming on
- 31:44Speaker 4: for three parts. And everybody go to YouTube dot com
- 31:46Speaker 4: and go to at the Dave Smith Unleashed podcast and
- 31:51Speaker 4: don't confuse.
- 31:51Speaker 3: Me with the comedian.
- 31:52Speaker 4: But just my luck, we get a comedian that's hit
- 31:54Speaker 4: it big with my name, Ben Mallard. So hopefully everybody
- 31:56Speaker 4: confuses me with him and comes to my podcast.
- 31:58Speaker 3: There you go.
- 31:59Speaker 1: You'll get a bunch of doub moves and all that.
- 32:00Speaker 1: All right, well, thank you, Dave. I appreciate it. Man,
- 32:02Speaker 1: you're the man. Thanks Dave.
- 32:03Speaker 3: All right, anytime, Ben, Thanks, gotta murder.
- 32:06Speaker 1: I gotta go.