Billion Dollar Babies

hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere as we are starting a brand new Saturday on the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard and Danny G. Because four hours a night or not enough and this podcast now eight days a week. Well kind of the radio show podcast, which is a version of a podcast because they they molded into the podcast format. But here we are. I

know you're very excited about that. Myself, Ben Mallock, the Great Danny G Radio back from Lost Weight, just Nevada and here he is. Unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's up, Ben? I got my NASA snap back hat on and I'm ready to do some rocket science on this show. Yeah. I want you to know I'm wearing right now. Do you know what hat I'm where you can see me right now? Is that the Philadelphia A's hut, no, no, try again. Guest number two, what do you think. Let's

see that is the Antelope Valley ant eaters. There you go, you got that right. Amazing job, unless unfortunately that is not correct. But the the answer is this is a Arkansas razorbacks hat that one of our great podcast listeners sent in and I I like it. I don't normally wear hats with a's on them, because I only like hats with the B for Ben or M for for Mallard. But this is such a cool hat. It's an exemption. I got a few hats that I wrote work in my rotation that don't have the M or BE on them,

but this is one of them. Is a good hat, very large, a one of the biggest letters I've seen in a hat. I got it all over me. Anyway, on this edition of the podcast here the fifth hour, we first of all want to beg you to please give a good review, not a bad review, a good review five stars, five stars. Again, people say, why does it matter who the hell reads those things? And I agree with you. I think a normal person would not

read those things. But you gott understand we have management and they have a lot of time on their hands and so they read those things and it doesn't make any sense to me. But again that that's just an easy way to help us and do us a solid and would certainly certainly be great if you could do that. Again, that's on the mainly the Apple page, right, Danny, isn't that the main one for the podcast review? It is? Yeah,

that's where you find the review capabilities. Yeah, so please say yes no no, you know I said say yes, not no. If you disagree with something Ben says on the podcast, feel free to give a two star review. No, no, no, no, because if you believe that I've said anything incorrect, I mean, what's wrong with you? Have you noticed that I love this toy that I have to access to It's just amazing. No, I haven't noticed, not at all. Right. Yeah, I did add a few more bells and whistles this week to

make it make it more exciting. Yeah. Can you imagine if you had this available on your live show? Yeah? Well, I've told I've told the story. Did I think I told you? Years ago? When I was first started, I worked, I started San Diego and I got my first real talk show. Break was in l A and we had those the replay machines. Wheah. They were called instant replay machines. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, the really expensive old technology compared to now you can

do everything on your phone now. But I had that and I, oh, I love that machine so much. Oh my god, it was awesome. Uh everything, I just hit all the buttons after and I hit the rim shot after everything, and that was the funniest out. And my program director, this guy Bo Bennett, came running in. He was not a fan of my use of the replay machine, and he literally in the middle of a segment I was talking. I was on the show with this guy named David Smith, and they pulled the replay machine out.

He was so upset. There were cables attached to it, either power and then there was another connected to the board, the engineering board, and he just ripped that thing out and its stormed out of the studio and that was that was the end of the replay machine for me.

So yeah, this is like a special treat anyway, in this edition the Saturday podcast, and he has the weekend and all that there's no football this weekend, waiting Super Bowl weeks coming up, and all about the Oh Bowl, Like I said, there's no football going on this weekend. Uh so, But but we do have we do have tales from our lives, tales from what what? What? What better content than random stories? It's storytime. Everyone loves a

good story. Then, you know, in advertising these days, the people who make commercials have determined that the way to get people to spend money is to tell a store. It's like restaurants. Have you gone to it was the last time you to a restaurant, Like a chain restaurant. They didn't have the story of how the restaurants started, and you know that, you know they were poor, and they know the moms recipe with whatever it might be.

And they all do it because they have market research that claims that people love that stuff and it causes them to go to support whatever that might be. More. Now, I'm not saying that you're gonna support this podcast more, but we just we we're just here too, schmooz. Right, So we're doing so on this podcast, We've got dress rehearsal, the Death Star, these tighter Man meme comes to life, and ten year old Benny's dream come true. All of those year old Benny you know exactly. Uh So, I

wanted to start with this. Now. As you know, Danny, I don't get out of the Mallard mansion much anymore, this being the COVID era of our lives. And I do not like the bullshit that you have to go through to go anywhere, and a lot of red tape. I can't stand it. Drives me not. I think a lot of it is just for show and it doesn't accomplish anything. If I believe it accomplished something, I would be all in on it. I think it's just for, you know, just for people to say, oh, look at me,

I'm virtue signaling. I can't stand it. So uh you know, the fact I have to go to a football game and show my papers to cover a football game, it just blows me away. Uh, it's insane to me. I do appear to be in the minority though, because I don't think many people are not going to these things. But so I had been a staple for like twenty five plus years of my life at these sporting events, and now in this year of my life, last three years two, it's rare and appropriate. I still go out.

I'll go to a Dodger playoff game or a RAM game. Everyone, but it's rare and appropriate. And the the NFC Championship game got me to leave my house and I didn't make it in and we were talking about that on the podcast and I was like, well, am I gonna go? And I one the reason I said, am I gonna go? Not gonna go? Because I was like, well, you know, the traffic and the the bullshit. But I ended up doing it, and I'm glad I did. I went to Sopi Stadium in the hood in Inglewood. How scared were

you with that interception that was in the Niner players hands? Well, you got to complete the play and he didn't complete the play, So bat job by him. That's that's the difference, right, It's just like, yeah, I don't know what his first name is, but that listen that through the David Tyree catch, great, great catch people love. I think it was a bull bull crap catch. But he drops that much different conversation, right, We're having a much different conversation. Patriots had the perfect

was that the perfect year? But I don't know if that was even the perfect year. I think that was a different year. But no, we're having a different conversation about this, and instead of you know, goofing on Brady for losing to Eli. A couple of times, we're playing the sad violin, like how did you lose that game? It's wrong with you, shame on you anyway. Now, were you in the beautiful media box? I was? I was so uh and uh you know this, it was a long weekend. Uh. You know, there's a lot of stuff

going on in that. But world class operation tip of the microphone to the rams. I mean that is my god. I was able to get a taste any of the super Bowl experience. As you know, the super Bowl is only for the cool people. And I'm not a cool and you know you're part of me. Now you're cool, but I'm you're with me, so you're not cool. So uh but the super Bowl for like the media elites, you know, the top one percent of media. And most of the people that cover the super Bowl don't actually

go to the game. It's a dirty little secret. They have to watch on television or they don't. Even a lot of the radio people that come out and cover the super Bowl they go back. They don't even stay for the game because they don't have access to access is limit anyway. Uh So it was out there got their taste the super Bowl experience that why is that not not just because it was the same stadium as super Bowl is gonna be next weekend, But the forty

niner RAM game was a preview of coming attractings. What I mean by that I was told by a source, shall we say, that the hospitality staff it's so Fi stadium treated that game like a dress rehearsal, that they were using that game as a model for what they were gonna do in the super Bowl. Which what did that mean for for me? What does that mean for the media? That meant for us freeloading in the media.

We were treated like kings. We were treated like the one percenters who are actually gonna be at the super Bowl. And so it was like a heavyweight boxing match. When I looked at all the food was let's go, here we go. I'm gonna box box the food right now, man, I'm ready to go. There was food in the air everywhere. They had a pregame meal chicken catch A tory said that right there was a pasta dish potatoes, veggies that

wasn't really my jam. I didn't go for that, Danny h But they had a candy bar, you know, like an open candy bar. They had oh my god, Eminem's. They had the Hershey Bars, both regular and almond. They had a chocolate side and then the other side. They had like gummy stuff all right, so sweet and sour. I didn't see they had a brownie table of brownies, cookies, had soda bar. I didn't see any booze. There was water, bottled water, healthy snacks. They had a salad bar. I

stayed away from that, Danny. I stayed ten feet. I was socially distancing from the salad bar. End up. But I did not I was I was fasting. I did not actually eat any of the meal, any of the food before the game. I waited, damn this veteran move. Veteran move. I waited till halftime. And the reason I waited at halftime they had more bend friendly foods at halftime, so they I'm talking to the third person. They had

more food that was more my jam. At halftime. That's when they pulled out just ram it many sliders, delicious little cheeseburgers, uh pepper chicken wings, unfortunately, bone in tater tots, curly fries, onion rings, and there was some other stuff, but that's all I focused on nice and so I hit that hard, just ram it hit. That was a wonderful corner copia of just deliciousness, and I loved it. And again I was told that it's the same set up they're gonna have Super Bowl. It's not gonna be

any different. And so I got to experience that, and I'm grateful it was. It was a lot of fun. So I had a good time out there. And I have some other stories that will tell later on some things that happened to me randomly while I was was out at the the Rams game with the fourtane So I was I was doing that. You were hanging out in Lost Wages, Nevada before we get to the desk Star. Did you do in a game? No? But my tender

RONI did she win any money? She did, and then at the end of the trip that got it back. But she brought three hundred in cash to gamble with. That was her budget, Okay, So she was like, Okay, I have three hundred dollars and twenty dollar bills. That's gonna be what I gamble with at the slot machine. She loves that wheel of Fortune machine. That's her machine. That's her jam. My wife likes that Wolf Run. Okay, you've seen that one. She thinks that's a lucky machine.

I don't agree with that. But yeah, she sits down at the wheel of fortune machine and she puts five dollar bets at a time. That's a lot. That's a bet on a slot machine. Yeah, some people do dimes and pennies and nickels, and nope, she plays five dollars at a time, Go bigger, go home, okay. And her first twenty dollar bill, she turned it into a hundred

and twenty six bucks. Now the movie, and let me ask you if she did what I what I would advise you hit a hunter your So she's up a buck twenty right at that point, take the buck twenty, put it away back three. That's what I would do that, I said. Okay, cash out, you're out. Yes, Yes, that's the move, Danny. Cash out. She did. She turned it into a ticket, which I posted on my two her account last weekend. So she carried around that one six

dollar ticket all weekend. But she continued to play the rest of the cash that she had in her purse. I couldn't tell what she had one and what she had lost because she had a combination of tickets and spare change just moving around from her wallet to her purse to her pocket. Everything had been joined together as everything was in a jumbled I got it. That's the whole purse. Let me tell the purse in theory. A

great idea, but everything gets all mixed together. You don't even know, right, it's it's every Every purse has got to be like that. Yeah. By the end of the weekend, she counted what she had in tickets and it was three hundred dollars. So she said, hey, this is good. I address myself. I'm even right now to her credit. On the last day we were there, on Sunday, she won twenty bucks on her way out, so she left up.

Want to eat dollars? That's good, it's not bad. She basically did all that gambling to win twenty bucks and get a sore throat from all of the cigarette smoke. Oh yeah, that's that's that's one of the few places left the western part of the United States where that is allowed. Man, what is up with all of the people smoking cigarettes there and blowing it in your face? Yeah? I wonder are these people because we live in California,

where you're not really allowed to smoke anywhere. Do these people just smoke because they went in Vegas, act like you're in Vegas? Or do these people actually smoked year round? I because I don't see a lot of people smoking anymore because it's been banned everywhere pretty much. Yeah, like you said, we don't see it anywhere where we live. And it's funny because she asked me that same question when we saw a cigar bar and guys were standing out in front of that blowing all the cigar smoke

in other people's faces. And that's a step bup of nasty and um at the Caesar's Palace, that's where that was. But literally, you walked past somebody and they look at you and they blow the cigarettes smoke right at your face. Yeah, a bunch of assholes, pretty much. And I told her, I said, no, these are people who supposedly quit smoking cigarettes, but when they go to Vegas they let it all hang out. So there are a smoker again. Yeah, you fall back, and do you smell anything else there while

you were in Vegas? Yeah? The strip? Yeah, the Strip smelled like a hundred coups. There was an infestation of skunks that somehow attacked the Vegas strip. I don't know how that is. It's unbelievable. Did you stop and see the Belage deal fountains Spliff City? Uh No, didn't look at the fountains. I think we've seen that before. But we did get to stay at the Palazzo, which was nice. That is a good hotel. Yeah, it's a good. Look

at you you're a baller, of course, connected to the Venetian. Basically, just got to walk around those two properties. Across the street to Caesar is a little bit. You know. We were at the baseball field for a lot of the daytime Saturday and Sunday, so it was more nighttime action in late afternoon action where we were actually at a casino. That's cool. Yeah, I've not been to Vegas, but I'm supposed to go to Vegas, I think later this month.

I possibly tentatively scheduled the Good to Vegas later in the month of February, but I haven't been there since COVID thing. So I went right before COVID and that was that was that. But this thing never seems to end, just keeps going on. And on and on. How busy it was Vegas because a pack it was packed. It was I would say about of the people there wore masks, but it's not a choir like in California. It's more like, if you want to that is it a rule you

have to wear the mask. Here it seemed like it was a rule inside but obviously not outside. Okay, yeah, because it's so far You know the how the the governor of California keeps mandating mask that wasn't even wearing a mask. All these these Hollywood a holes who were telling everyone to wear masks. We're not wearing masks. Saw that already infamous picture with Magic Johnson. Yeah, that's it was. It was ridiculous. But yeah, I can go on and on that. So you ended up at the Death Star,

the Legendary Raiders Stadium. There um beautiful looks like on television. Never been there. Did it live up to your expectations? Yeah, beyond impressive. I kind of knew what to expect going in because I followed along the whole time it was being built on YouTube. There was a cool special called from the ground Up with Mike Rowe. Oh I gotta check that. Us on YouTube. Yes, I love Micro. We gotta try to get Micro on the podcast. Very cool dude. If you don't know who we're talking about. He's the

host of the World's Dirtiest Jobs, Dirty Jobs on Discovery. Yeah, I love love Micro. Dude's got one of the best narrator of voices in the business. He narrates this series where they literally from the first shovel in the ground

until they unveil the completed Death Star. He takes you through the entire process and to watch them spend billions of dollars and to see how much technology and everything goes into this new stadium that they sped up because they wanted to get it done for that season, which wound up getting canceled for fans because of COVID. But this was a five year project that they rushed into three and a half years, and so to watch them

works seven been days a week around the clock. Now to be able to go there in person last weekend and actually see it with my own eyes and walk through the hallways and get on the field see all of the art installations throughout the building. That was the one thing that stood out to me, the attention to detail. Ben ridiculous there. I mean, everything precise and perfect and just a masterpiece. Yeah, that's cool. It does look realize. So you did the actual stadium tour, right, you did that.

I had a buddy of mine that lives in Vegas who said, you gotta do that. It's the coolest thing. They take you everywhere and you can get a photo and the whole thing, like from I guess from a distance they zoom in. I don't know what they do. They take you to where our friend Brent Musburger and Lincoln Kennedy sit during the game. And then they also take you to Mark Davis's personal suite that you get a view from there. Did they give you the Mark

Davis hair cut? Did they give you that that bowl cut? Is that part of the deal? I asked one of the tour guides if there was a barbershop for Mark Davis there, and he just laughed, So I think the answer was no. Well, not only that, but the where's he Where's is the PF Change he hangs out at? Yeah, p F Change is his favorite spot. There's one right there on the strip, not far from the stadium. Yeah, all right, so you made the rounds. What was your

favorite part? Was it the locker room, was the press box? Was it just being in the tunnels underneath? Like? What was the coolest part? I would have to say the Hall of Fame row. They did a great job on that, and the raider ats shiny new facility. Hello, he's a lovely lady in my apologies tour my Tinda Rowning took a picture of herself in the mirror there as she is my raider at And it's funny because they have

a tour guide in the front who's doing all the talking. Yeah, yeah, up, and then there's just one guy trailing in the back whose sole job is to be the caboose of the train. And so we were straggling the whole time so we could get the better pictures without strangers in the shots. He just kept telling us, Oh, it's all good as long as I'm the last one. You're good, You're good. So they were. Was he also worried somebody was gonna be, you know, sneak away and and uh hide out in

the stadium or something like that. Was that really were worried about? Yeah? Probably, um, you know, because he looked very nervous. His head was on a swivel inside Mr Davis's suite, and I was thinking it was someone gonna do like sleeping here until the next game. But once we got to where the raidar ats are very cool. It was like a raidar At museum. I mean, it showed what the raidar ats looked like in the sixties and there was it was like a museum of their

uniforms throughout the seasons. The tour guide in the back told us that his favorite raidar At was Mackenzie. We went and looked and she was all right, but he was like, yeah, forget Beyonce, I got to meet her. She's bad. He was telling us how he would cheat on her even though he's engaged, he would cheat on his fiance with Mackenzie. And so we had a good time laughing at this guy's jokes and we were making

him laugh. We were the end of the train there, and so that made the tour extra fund the fact that we didn't follow directions and we didn't really listen to the lady that was talking at the front of the tour. Yeah, so she was droning on and on and on, and you were just kind of enjoying the sights and the stuff. We were in the back goofing around, were like the kids goofing around on the field trip. Yeah, well, good, good for you. That's the proper way to have a

stadium tour. I would agree with that. All right. So now you've seen this, Now you gotta go to a game, right, that's the next step. You gotta go to a game there next year. That is the next step you talked about so far at the top of the podcast. I've been there. Very very cool stadium, but very steep. You're not a man of the people when it comes to

rams games, so you don't understand. But but Ben, when you actually sit in a section there, not up in the in the high falutin breast box, yeah, oh my god, it's so steep that if you slightly tripped, you fall down this toilet bowl to your death. Well, I don't like that. I'm not I'm not a fan of steep. That was the one thing I liked better about Vegas than so far was you didn't have that steepness going

on with the sections there. Yeah. Did they have a lake in front of the stadium in Vegas like they do in my tinder? Rooney's son said, Okay, you guys have seen both now, so what what do you think. What's the biggest difference between the two stadiums. We both said the same thing. We like the inside of the Death Start better. We like the outside of so Far better. If Vegas is the Death Star, are so Far as

Jurassic Park? Yeah, it's it's crazy. It's like this weird. Uh. It's right in the middle of Englewood, which is not a great neighborhood in l A, that part of of l A. And it's just amazing, like popped up, not out of nowhere, out of five billion dollars, but craziness all right, because I have the Spider Man meme becomes reality. So back to the trip to SOFI over the weekend. A lot of red tape, as I said, mass police all that stuff, A bunch of boozing forty Niner fans

who walked through there before the game. Danny and I had to walk and I parked far away and I had to walk to these people. They believe they owned the Rams, that they were the Rams, Daddy, and they were rocking around just it was like a coro nation. They were just it was a it was a nuisance. Danny that they had to play this game, and that they had to you know, they're gonna beat the Rams. Who cared. I saw a guy dressed up in a full uniform, this fat white guy dressed as Jimmy Garoppolo.

He had the full pants, the helmet, the jersey, the whole thing. A wild seat. Um, I'm walking walking through whatever, and uh and I it was. It was. It was great. Like even I got there four hours before the game because I wanted to watch the a f C Championship game from there. I didn't want to deal with the traffic, and so I got there four hours before kickoff, and uh it was. It was gridlock. And I didn't know

really rather where to park. I just drove down Century Boulevard and figured I'd probably find the place at some point. I did. Uh and I actually because they took away all the parking for the Super Bowl. They were getting ready for the Super Bowl, and so they put us in this parking structure right near the NFL network. They have studios there. So Holy Andrews Siciliano, William mcguinnis, and

Kurt Warner Batman. I mean they're all, oh, that's where those guys were here, So I ended up walking literally one and a half miles to the media will call to to pick up my past and the woman handling the PR I get to the PR window and you gotta show your driver's license and all this stuff to game, and uh, she starts laughing and she says, well, oh you're you're a Mallard And I said, yeah, do the

doing overnight show at Fox Sports Radio. And she says, she tells the fun especially had ten minutes earlier, she hadn't mistakenly given my credential to somebody else named Mallard, and uh, it's like the Spider Man Mean comes live. And so I was like, well, you know what's going on? And uh, but you know, it was like the Spider Man Mean. And it turns out that one of my cousins, and I don't think I've told this story before on

radio or the podcast. One of my cousins, Danny, is a very prominent senior producer at a popular tabloid TV show in Los Angeles, and very rarely do our pass cross because he covers entertainment and I cover sports. But this there were a lot of celebrities that happened to be at the Rams game, and so the tabloid TV shows and it's a small world after all, they sent him out there to document these celebrities, and so on this day everything lined up. And his name is Carrie.

It's the same last name. He covers mostly like you know, entertainment, elections, you know, shootings, you name fires, a cacophney of other random things. And he actually did send me a text two say that he had his you know, he when he got his, he got my credentials. He thought it was it was pretty funny. But then the other thing was like it was like it was like a series of errors, Danny, because he's texting me and I don't

talk to him that off. You know, we we used to go to bar Missfahs and things like that when we were kids, a little kids. And he's a little younger than me, I believe, I think it's younger than me. We're around the same age. And you know, he moved to the Midwest and then he came back to l A. And so we kind of lost track. We we we reconnected a few years back, but we don't talk that often. And so he's texting, He's like, hey, let's meet up.

You know, the photop the Mallard cousin photop. You know, I don't have a lot of family out here, most of them are dead. Uh So, so anyways, all right, whatever, and so he's like, hey, meet me here, and I was like, I can't get there. It turns out that he had different access to me. He had access to where the celebrities were, and I only was allowed like where the press box was in the field. I could go to the field, which was pretty cool, but I was like, meet me down here. It couldn't meet me

um anyway. But so we just agreed to go to dinner or something like that, and we were at the same stadium but couldn't get to the same spot. And uh so, yeah, that was I mean, he also had different food, didn't you. Yeah, he must have. I don't. I don't know if he even stayed for the game. I think he was just there for the pregame and they were I guess a lot of celebrities showed him

on TV. I didn't. I don't even know who most of these people are, but I guess they're famous and there they were there and they got the full television treatments.

So there was that. Uh one fun final thing. I know, we're getting a little long in the tooth here on the Saturday edition from the fifth Hour, but the ten year old Benny's dream comes true and so As again relates that when I was growing up a Rams fan, fat little kid growing up in Orange County, and I envisioned myself playing on the offensive line for the Rams. Was convinced because I was fat, that I'd be on the offensive line for the Rams. When I when I

was just gonna happen. You know, when you're a kid through the eyes of a child, and it was wearing Ram horns in my head. I was ready to go. And of course it never quite worked out. The football career went all the sideways on that for a myriad a myriad of reasons did not quite go my way. So anyway, when I was a kid, I told the story I used to go to RAMS training camp because I grew up in Irvine and the Rams trained at you see Irvine, So my mom it's a different time.

My mom would drive me over there, dropped me off, and I'd spent all day wandering around the campus of use here mind really just the practice fields there, and have very fund members of that because it was a much softer, much softer time, I guess, uh then than the way it is now. But I remember, just like I gravitated the offensive line. There was very little security. It was during the week. There wasn't hardly anybody there.

It's much there now you've been to training camp. I'm sure it's like a corporate event, right, it's a whole thing. It's marketing. And it wasn't like that, PEPSI. Yeah, it was just about practice. And this is so long ago. Back in the Bronze Age, they actually practiced twice a day. They had morning and afternoon practice early on like hell

week NFL players. Can you imagine if they told the NFL players that they gotta practice in the morning and come back and practice in the afternoon, there would be upheaval. There would be mutiny on the bounty if they did that. Anyway, So they did back in those days, and it was cool when you're a kid, because you got to go to practice is in one day. You just had to kill time during the middle of the day before they

came back the practice. So, you know, just gravitated the offensive So let's jump ahead now, we move ahead in the broadcast Danny. So from that's that's a little bit. That's for context. So I'm at the RAM forty nine game. I'm in the press box. I go to search for my seat. It's like that, you know when you start school and they post the classes in which classroom you need to go to the big pain So it's like, I don't know where I'm sitting. So I'm trying to

find my seat and abracadabra hocus poems. The Rams had assigned me a seat in the second row. When you're a radio guy and you get a seat in the second row, that's big Radio's third role. Third row. Radio's radio. Radio row is always like the worst part of the press box. They hate radio. They usually spit loogie's at radio people. But for some reason, I ended up in the second row, like this was a big deal. Danny Radio is usually the one talking shit about them. Yeah, exactly.

So anyway, so I'm in the second row. So I'm sitting sitting next to me assigned by the Rams, number seventy eight in your program, Yeah, number one in your heart, the Great Jackie Slater Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame, Offensive Lineman, Gold jacket Guy, the whole thing and a guy. When I was a little ten year old Benny and I got dropped off at RAM training camp. I watched Jackie Slater. I thought I was gonna be playing with

Jackie Slater on the RAM offensive line. And here I am living ten year old Benny's childhood dream because for the next four hours, me and Jackie Slater are teammates, were teammates in the media, and damn it, we're the offensive line and we are there and and I'll I'll play guard. Jackie could play in the tackle position, and uh,

and it was. He was very nice. I actually had under you Jackie before on the phone, but not in person where you know, I was feeding him stats and he he was doing some local TV in l A. So, but that being said, Danny, I did have one embarrassing, my embarrassing, but awkward situation with a great Jackie Slater. So the Rams, everyone brings up the forty niner player that dropped the interception, right that, yeah, we we what's his name, Tart? Yeah? Whatever. So the Rams also nobody

brings us up because they won the game. But there were two dropped touchdown past and during one of them, and I think it was the Cooper Cup one he ended up with the touch somebody he missed a fingertip, Yes, that one. So I'm sitting there and Jackie Slater lets out this loud groan of disgust. Right now, keep in mind the press box and Sofi Stadium is encased encased

in glass. There's no outside crowd noise, so it's kind it's not quiet quiet because you can kind of faintly hear the crowd a little bit, but it's not the outside ambiance of the stadium. So if we freaking sportswriter, every media person turns or you're never you're not supposed to cheer in the press box, right and Jackie's doing this thing. Andy one turns around and they're looking towards me because I'm next to Jackie, and um, they didn't.

I don't think they put two and two together. It was very, very awkward, but that was that was a lot of fun. It was a good time, and I got you talk to Jackie. He wants to do the podcast. He's he's cool to do it. So hopefully, if all goes well, maybe next week we'll have the great Jackie Slader. I think it'd be appropriate with the Rams in the in the Super Bowl. Get his perspective, yeah and everything. So I always see him on one of the l

A TV stations here doing one of those sports rap shows. Yeah, yeah, that's what he was there. It was him. It was like if you're an old Rams fan from back in the day, it was I saw Vince Ferragamo was sitting there, and then Jackie Jackie Slater. So it's like nineteen late seventies, early eighties, right around that time Rams Rams football, So that was that was pretty neat. So it's pretty cool, and I think that's it right that we put the

baby to bed for now. I was gonna do some pop quiz, but I think we've gone a little long on this. And so Ben, how nuts did the male dancers go on the Ram field after the big win? Yeah? I know, Danny. Of all the things the Rams have done over the years, you will not when it comes to the male cheerleaders. And so are your favorite topics? Man? Uh you know, listen, no one's perfect. Humans are fallible and uh you know it all day and ram it

all night. The Rams took that theme song too, seriously. Yeah, they didn't ask me my perspective on that. But you know it's I guess I don't know, is that I candy for the women, I candy for the gay guys. I don't know what whatether into. Knock yourself out. I was more focused on the ladies. But there's a little bit for everything. Yeah, when I've heard about those male cheering, remember I think, were you with me when that happened? Was yeah, you anthem about it? Yeah it was Yeah,

that was my reaction when I found out about that. Anyway, have a great rest your Saturday. We've got a mail bag, big mail bag on Sunday. Looking forward to that, and there's nothing else for the you know, you know, a Pro Bowl weekend and Pro Bowl with speaking of the Death Star, that's where the Pro Bowl is happening Sunday. Yeah, congratulations to your lambs. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. And I really feel bad, though, Danny for the trolls

because they every week they get so excited. They were worked into a lather. They were convinced, Danny, when the Niners had a ten point lead going to the fourth quarter they were going to be winners. Who We're going to the Super Bowl, We're the Niners. Instead, Ben was doing his chocolate he wasted dance at the candy bar. I was loving that, I I flashed back to fat Benny. I was, yeah, I was really enjoying that. But I only I only ate like a like a pig for

two hours and then I cut it down. So I feel like, all things considered, because back in the old days, Danny, I would have eaten literally for six consecutive hours. Yeah, I mean, I stuffed your pockets. You would have wrapped things in napkins. There would have been leftover food stuffed in your computer bag. Oh exactly exactly. It was like, you know, it was like getting the daily double. And I was like, hey, al right, uh yeah, anyway, it'd be well and stay safe and all that good stuff

will catch you on the mail bag on Sunday. Bye bye, Folation